Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 15:01:37 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Christopher R. Bowman" <crb@Glue.umd.edu> Cc: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@FreeBSD.ORG>, dkelly@hiwaay.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, platforms@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: speed test Message-ID: <19970817150137.64846@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970816162837.1497A-100000@divot.eng.umd.edu>; from Christopher R. Bowman on Sat, Aug 16, 1997 at 04:34:01PM -0400 References: <199708161005.MAA02831@desk.jhs.no_domain> <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970816162837.1497A-100000@divot.eng.umd.edu>
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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
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