On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 11:56:34 +0100 Praise <praisetazio@tiscalinet.it> wrote:
I hope that.... because if not it's a high rate of pc failure. Very high! The correct number is 0.0052:-) If you assume a constant rate of failure, they would have to replace all computers in a very short time: about 192 days.
Statistics are often misleading. I'll bet the actual figures are something like " on any given day, 52 out of 10000 pc's are down". That would include broken pc's from the day before that wern't fixed yet, sort of a carry over. It dosn't mean that 52 "previously unbroken pc's" dropped off for the first time. If I had a fleet of 10000 rental cars, and if on any given day, they all worked except for 52, I would say I'm doing pretty good. -- $|=1;while(1){print pack("h*",'75861647f302d4560275f6272797f3');sleep(1); for(1..16){for(8,32,8,7){print chr($_);}select(undef,undef,undef,.05);}}