From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Aug 16 22:32:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA07273 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 22:32:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nico.telstra.net (nico.telstra.net [139.130.204.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA07252; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 22:32:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by nico.telstra.net (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id PAA03398; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 15:31:40 +1000 Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id PAA06394; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 15:01:38 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970817150137.64846@lemis.com> Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 15:01:37 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Christopher R. Bowman" Cc: "Julian H. Stacey" , dkelly@hiwaay.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, platforms@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: speed test References: <199708161005.MAA02831@desk.jhs.no_domain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: ; from Christopher R. Bowman on Sat, Aug 16, 1997 at 04:34:01PM -0400 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, Aug 16, 1997 at 04:34:01PM -0400, Christopher R. Bowman wrote: > On Sat, 16 Aug 1997, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > >> Reference: >>> From: dkelly@hiwaay.net >>> Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 22:19:02 -0500 >>> Message-id: <199708160319.WAA05640@nospam.hiwaay.net> >> >> Hi, >> dkelly@hiwaay.net wrote: >>> Poul-Henning Kamp writes: >>>> >>>> That should be moderately easy: Grab lites and get moving... >>>> >>>> I somehow doubt that there are many Mac owners who are into UNIX ... >>> >>> I've always said, "Gimme a Mac, or gimme Unix, keep the half-baked poor excus >>> e Microsoft boxes to yourself." Maybe I'm 3-sigma? >> >> What does "3-sigma" mean in English ? >> (I'm English not American, perhaps others were puzzled too ?) >> > > If I remember correctly 3-sigma is esstentially a short-hand for 1 in a > million. It derives from statistics where given a gaussian (bell) > distribution, the probability of anything outside 3 sigma (sigma is a ususally > the standard deviation) from the average is like .999997 or something > close to that, which is basically 1 in a million. Motorola was big into > this basing their near zero defect quality project on this catch > phrase. Didn't Moto have a 7-sigma goal? Greg