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randomNumber7 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant compute...

For errors due to radiation the probability is extremely low, since it would need to flip the same bit at the same time in two different places.

sippeangelo 4 months ago [–]

Then why 8 instead of 3?

okibry 4 months ago | | [–]

8 is 2 to the power of 3

randomNumber7 4 months ago | | [–]

They know their developers and engineers suck almost as hard as their management decisions so they added some more redundancy.

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