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compute/stats-for-sysadmins.md
| ... | ... | @@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ From <https://theartofmachinery.com/2020/01/27/systems_programming_probability.h |
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| 11 | 11 | If you throw n balls into n buckets at random, a bit over a third of the buckets will be empty, a bit over a third will have one ball, and the remaining quarter or so will have multiple balls. |
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| 13 | +### Time to double |
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| 14 | +From <https://web.stanford.edu/class/ee204/TheRuleof72.html> |
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| 16 | +If you've got a thing growing a X% per day, it'll take 72/X days to double in size, roughly. |
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| 13 | 18 | ### Scale up, or scale out? |
| 14 | 19 | From <http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~mastjjb/jeb/or/queue.html> |
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