[87715] in Cypherpunks
MTBF
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Choate)
Sun Oct 5 18:20:32 1997
From: Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>
To: cypherpunks@ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 16:52:26 -0500 (CDT)
Reply-To: Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>
Hi,
MTBF is usualy given as a single number, number_of_base_time_units from
initial turn-on to 1st failure given no power downs or other interruptions.
This is effectively of the form number_of_base_time_units/failure.
This is clearly equivalent to number_of_failures/base_time_unit for
practical use. Especialy considering that in this form you generaly don't
ever need to do a division as you do if you use the first form.
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