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semantics:

when I read "0% downtime" I roughly read it as "less than 0.49% downtime", which is not THAT impressive. (it would mean 99.51% uptime)

In cases where 1% is like arsenic, "0% arsenic" doesn't mean much. I'll take the water source with 0.00% arsenic! (if you'd like to brag about it :D - and why not, as Wikipedia notes, "Arsenic contamination of groundwater is a problem that affects millions of people across the world.")

actually Wikipedia says acceptable levels are 1 part in 100 000000 (if I'm converting correctly), but 0.00 at least gives you an indication that you're not boasting about poison.



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