From the June 2003 Scientific American Magazine | 0 comments
By Fiona Harvey
Wang calculates that the probability of finding a false match is less than three in a million, which means that the system can work even when only 1 percent of the song is audible. To minimize the retrieval speed, all the data are kept in active memory (rather than on hard disks) on a distributed computer system consisting of about 70 PCs.
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