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And how many of these would be typos and not bit flips caused by cosmic rays?


You could quite easily test that, by comparing bit-flipped domains to keyboard-neighbour domains.

Or alternatively, just by looking at the distribution of hits to bit-flipped domains (which should be broadly uniform; typos will be non-uniform).




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