Symbol N
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Analysis. The following is my own structural analysis, not drawn from any single cited source. If a fleet of N identical devices each fails independently at rate , the fleet-wide failure rate is N , so
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Equation 3 · Datacenters
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Analysis. The following is my own structural analysis, not drawn from any single cited source. If a fleet of N identical devices each fails independently at rate , the fleet-wide failure rate is N , so
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