How is the fault tolerance measured?

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“If the number of nodes that agree exceeds 2/3, the blocks or transactions of clients will be accepted”

Practical Byzantine fault tolerance (pBFT) : (n - 1) / 3

I read those 2 things in a PDF that a friend of mine sent me.

The question is: are those numbers (2/3) or “(n-1)/3” constant? Or those numbers are established by the developers.

What makes those numbers? What’s the reason for 2/3 and not 2.5/3 ? Or why not (n - 2 ) / 3

Juan

Posted 2019-02-15T19:23:13.293

Reputation: 90

Possible duplicate of Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus - Why 33% threshold

Iain 2019-02-15T19:48:06.317

It talks about why those numbers but not how they are measuredJuan 2019-02-15T20:02:18.707

Where are you getting those nonsense numbers from? Those don't reflect anything about how the network operates at all.Anonymous 2019-02-15T22:55:00.987

They are not nonsense. They are written on the Practical Byzantine fault PDF. It does reflect how the network operates (Not for Bitcoin’s blockchain though)Juan 2019-02-15T23:20:28.053

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