Calculating the probability of data persistence

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@TylerAbeoJordan

If there were a way to increase copy number as size increased, such would mitigate the increase in errors.

One possibility to kind of double your chunks, is to make a slight change to the first chunk, like here:

NoEncryptionNet [07/02/24 Testnet]

I made an experiment: I made 5 versions of one photograph. Version 0 is a landscape without any alterations as an uncompressed -tiff format, about 69MB. Versions 1 - 4 I edited one pixel in every corner of the image, to see how editing affects to how it’s chunks are deduplicated. Results: Version 0: Among 139 chunks, found 0 (of course) Version 1: Among 139 chunks, found 0 Version 2: Among 139 chunks, found 135 Version 3: Among 139 chunks, found 134 Version 4: Among 139 chunks, found 134 …