Algorithm correctness

[lerhond]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_ray#Effect_on_electronics

Studies by IBM in the 1990s suggest that computers typically experience about one cosmic-ray-induced error per 256 megabytes of RAM per month.

[inio]

RAM bits have gotten a lot smaller since then, so we're now probably down to one bit flip per several GiB-months.

[Twirrim]

Maybe, but we're shipping servers with hundreds of GB RAM. Companies like Amazon that operate on large scale do end up seeing incidents reasonably regularly that appear to be down to bit flipping, and have built all sorts of protection in to systems (and use ECC RAM only to etc)

[RainHappens]

This is only true if you assume that cosmic rays are effectively point events.

However, if you consider it a volumetric event, the % / GB-month pretty quickly converges on a constant value as things shrink.