RE: Going the distance
- To: "'Simon L. Sabato'" <simons@xxxxxxxxxx>, Larry Miller <l_d_miller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: RE: Going the distance
- From: Rob Marsland <rmarsland@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 08:32:17 -0500
- Cc: "stds-802-3-hssg@xxxxxxxx" <stds-802-3-hssg@xxxxxxxx>
- Organization: Focused Research, Inc
- Reply-To: "rmarsland@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <rmarsland@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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In reply to:
The latter is simply not a tolerable situation
to me. It's simple math, if you want 10,000,000 trouble free
installations, then you're going to have to ensure that the
one-in-a-million combination of worst-case devices still works.
Is there really *any* other way to go about this?
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Yes there is. Its called statistics. Instead of designing for worst case,
you design for 3 sigma, or 5 sigma, or whatever. It makes a lot more sense
even if you are designing atom bombs. Well, ok, maybe worst case is
necessary for that one.............
Rob
Robert A. Marsland
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