Did you solve it? The magical maths that keeps your data safe
by Alex Bellos from Science | The Guardian on (#6JR1X)
The solutions to today's problems
Earlier today I set these two puzzles, which were given to me by a computer scientist at Microsoft. They are an analogy for how companies protect data centres from the random failures of hard drives. Here they are again with solutions and workings.
The disappearing boxes
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