On 19 Nov 2009 12:05:22 -0800, paulgboul...@aim.com (Paul Gilmartin)
wrote:

>>Well, 99.999% reliability means that 1/10000 of the time the thing is not
>>reliable = about 8 hours per year.
>
>Well, 99.999% reliability means that 1/100000 of the time the thing is not
>reliable = about 0.1 hours per year.

Of course, we also have to agree on what "reliable" means.

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