[36753] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What does 95th %tile mean?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg A. Woods)
Thu Apr 19 14:07:31 2001
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From: woods@weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
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Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 13:58:57 -0400 (EDT)
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[ On Thursday, April 19, 2001 at 12:13:34 (-0400), Andy Dills wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: What does 95th %tile mean?
>
> Everything makes sense until the last line. "Calculating the total in and
> out octets" could imply either max or sum, so it probably depends on the
> contract, which seems to be the bottom line to this thread anyhow.
When I see the words "total" and "and" used like that it can only mean
that addition is the operation of choice.
Inserting the missing word "of" in there might help:
Calculating the total of in and out octets ...
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