Do gamma rays from the sun really flip bits every once in a while? [duplicate]
Well, I did dig up this paper, which claims that your RAM will get bit alterations from “Atmospheric Neutrons” (aka: Cosmic Rays) at a rate of about 1.3*10^-12 /bit/hour. An article by Berke Durak uses that to calculate that your probablilty of having at least one bit error in 4 gigabytes of memory at sea … Read more