2008/9/17 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>om>:
So there is a
one percent chance of initiating a checkuser data purge,
and a 0.99 chance that all data will remain intact for the time being.
This 99% may seem high, but it becomes negligible over a month. I
don't know what the exact odds is as I cannot find a calculator that
gives me a non-zero result for "0.99 ^ (6.5 million)" [4].
0.99^6500000=5.819478586x10^-28372
To put that in perspective, if we'd done this every month since the
universe began (about 14 billion years ago), the probability of there
being at least one month in which it didn't get purged would be...
hmmm... "0". So much for Maple...
After realising that with numbers this small 1st order approximations
are almost exact, it's 9.776724024x10^-28364, which is no more in
perspective than before... I think it's best just to say "It'll never
happen" and be done with it!.