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To: FuzzFace who wrote (810)	7/30/1998 3:58:00 PM
From: Ken Pomaranski	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10072

<< Thus, to lose 10% of the 100,000, you will need to run them for about 10,000 hours. I seriously doubt that anyone will use their digital camera for 10,000 hours in a year since there are only 8760 hours in a non-leap-year. >> You are correct. My analysis assumed continuous operation. If you ran 10 CLIKs! continuously for a year, 1 will fail (on average). Obviously, digital cameras don't fall into this category. PDAs and telephones may run 8 hours / day. So what you need to do is multiply 10% by the percentage use over a year. 8 hours / day = about 3% failure rate. Good Job!!! Great find... :) kp