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To: Ken Pomaranski who wrote (812)7/30/1998 4:10:00 PM
From: FuzzFace  Read Replies (2) of 10072
 
For an interesting Quantum white paper on Theoretical versus real life MTBF, see quantum.com .

They use the traditional explanation: run a large enough sample size and one will fail every MTBF hours. But I believe my explanation was more "accessible", since no one wants to wait 100,000-1,000,000 hours for anything these days. <g>
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