19 Mar
2013
19 Mar
'13
7:07 p.m.
On Tue, 19 Mar 2013, David Riley wrote:
They can demonstrate given empirical evidence.
Certainly, when
we determine the MTBF of electronic devices, it all comes down to
statistics. If you test a million capacitors over a period of a
year and five of them fail, statistically a given capacitor will
fail every 200,000 years.
IFF you postulate and accept that the failure rate is linear.
(I have no idea whether it IS)
Consider: of a million cartons of milk, 5 go bad in a week, therefore,
those cartons of milk are good for eight hundred years
If 4 out of a million of these discs fail in a week, then they are good
for 1000 years?
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com