Did you pay attention in stats lessons?
Example:
the average of: 1,1,1,1,6
is: (1+1+1+1+6)/5
= 10/5
= 2.
Therefore the number of items below the average is 4 items out of 5 (ie 80%)
Oh I don't know, "e" has made the British music scene what it is today and made night clubbing a much more friendly experience, even if one does not take it. It might taste foul (so I'm told) but I don't think it grates. Also, some organisations have made an awful lot of money selling E. Oh wait... wrong sort of e-business...
Ickle
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Go and have a look at the graphs... over 40% of win95 users reported at least two failures in a given month (note that this is just the number that report failures - I'm sure that there are many people who don't bother phoning tech support and just reboot their machines when MS Windows falls over again).
Assuming a chance of failure of p during a month, the chances of two failures is p squared.
Therefore p squared > 0.4 from their own figures. This would imply a probability of failure during a month of sqrt(0.4)= 0.63 or a 63% chance of failure during any month.
Between 10 and 20% of NT Workstation users reported at least two failures. Assuming 15%, similar maths would imply a failure rate of 39% per month.
Figures for average downtime/work lost per failure would be needed to complete the reliability figures. Any takers?
The patent is much easier to read if you replace each instance of the word 'said' with 'the'. Perhaps we have the beginnings of a legal text translator here...
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Did you pay attention in stats lessons? Example: the average of: 1,1,1,1,6 is: (1+1+1+1+6)/5 = 10/5 = 2. Therefore the number of items below the average is 4 items out of 5 (ie 80%)
Oh I don't know, "e" has made the British music scene what it is today and made night clubbing a much more friendly experience, even if one does not take it. It might taste foul (so I'm told) but I don't think it grates. Also, some organisations have made an awful lot of money selling E. Oh wait... wrong sort of e-business...
Ickle
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This is what packages like PGP are for folks...
Go and have a look at the graphs... over 40% of win95 users reported at least two failures in a given month (note that this is just the number that report failures - I'm sure that there are many people who don't bother phoning tech support and just reboot their machines when MS Windows falls over again).
Assuming a chance of failure of p during a month, the chances of two failures is p squared.
Therefore p squared > 0.4 from their own figures. This would imply a probability of failure during a month of sqrt(0.4)= 0.63 or a 63% chance of failure during any month.
Between 10 and 20% of NT Workstation users reported at least two failures. Assuming 15%, similar maths would imply a failure rate of 39% per month.
Figures for average downtime/work lost per failure would be needed to complete the reliability figures. Any takers?
IckleIzzy
The patent is much easier to read if you replace each instance of the word 'said' with 'the'.
Perhaps we have the beginnings of a legal text translator here...