Jim Phillips writes:

>>1. If method #1 ever loses sync -- that is, if it ever misinterprets data
>>as a length -- the chance of recovering is tiny, and the chance of
>>recovering without damaging data somewhere is tiny squared.
>
>Well, at the risk of wasting bandwidth (aw, what the heck!):

I agree, obviously :-)...

>If tiny is greater than 1, then tiny to the second power is greater
>than tiny (to the first power); that is:
>
>Tiny**2 > Tiny

True, but a _chance_ must by definition be <= 1, so a tiny chance must be
0 < p << 1.

-- Bruce


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