diff --git a/website/source/docs/internals/consensus.html.md b/website/source/docs/internals/consensus.html.md index 16b86565c..cc15c698c 100644 --- a/website/source/docs/internals/consensus.html.md +++ b/website/source/docs/internals/consensus.html.md @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ same sequence of logs must result in the same state, meaning behavior must be de For Nomad's purposes, all server nodes are in the peer set of the local region. * **Quorum** - A quorum is a majority of members from a peer set: for a set of size `n`, -quorum requires at least `(n/2)+1` members. +quorum requires at least `⌊(n/2)+1⌋` members. For example, if there are 5 members in the peer set, we would need 3 nodes to form a quorum. If a quorum of nodes is unavailable for any reason, the cluster becomes *unavailable* and no new logs can be committed.