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chrisweekly
32 days ago
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DuckDB NPM packages 1.3.3 and 1.29.2 compromised w...
Your point is completely valid. Tangent: in your example, what calculation led to "63%"?
theanonymousone
32 days ago
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1-(.9999)^10000
I trust the user did this calculation. I didn't.
tgv
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That's indeed the formula. The .9999 is (1 - 1/10000), 1/10000 being the likelihood. It would perhaps have been clearer if I had chosen two different numbers...
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