On Tuesday 24 June 2008 06:00, Mike McCarty wrote: > Testing a "known factor" is much easier than locating one. By a factor of many decimal orders of magnitude .... > > That figure (3.2%) seems very high to me. Perhaps there is a > defect hiding out in there.
Lots of them. Consumer hardware is not very reliable at all, and it only takes one bit flip during the execution of the test to ruin the result. The miracle is that the failure rate is so small. Regards Brian Beesley _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
