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> The reliability is up to 99.9999%

"up to"... Certainly looks like a wrong wording.

I read it in the "we have now gotten it up to X" sense, such as "I'm now up to my 5th beer"

That's the way to read it.

except reliability reduces a total, not sum integers like beer count.

if I write a shell script with a scp line right now I can tell you it has 100% reliability. up to X% reliability means that "in the very nice and controlled environment, with the own devs attacking every production problem, trying to get 100% got us up to X%"

Except that is clearly not what they where trying to communicate.

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