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The medical and dental worlds may have something to teach us about how stainless steel spokes fatigue. The following summaries are from PubMed--the first one caught my eye and its "related articles" led to the others.
A 1% notch in a 16-gauge 1.2 mm wire would be 0.12 mm, or about 0.005 inches, roughly two sheets of paper.
Unless "1% notch" means something non-intuitive, it would be 0.012mm or 0.0005 inches. A mere scratch. Well, maybe not so mere.
