 One-minute sampling provided statistics for less energetic flares and gave a frequency of one flare of energy 1033 erg every 5–600 years for a star rotating as slowly as the Sun; this would be rated as X100 on the solar flare scale.This is based on a straightforward comparison of the number of stars studied with the number of flares observed.An extrapolation of the empirical statistics for solar flares to an energy of 1035 erg suggests a frequency of one in 10,000 years.