[SI-LIST] Re: Fibre channel interconnect margins

RJ really is unbounded by definition.

Steve.
At 09:46 AM 7/3/2006, Steven Kan wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 21:48:56 -0700
> > From: Alan.Hiltonnickel@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: [SI-LIST] Re: Fibre channel interconnect margins
> >
> > In fact, I think that companies DO ship products that toss a random
> > error approximately every 10e-xx or so. Why? Because the statistical
> > theory behind those errors is that random/Gaussian noise is, by
> > definition, unbounded - errors are a fact of life, even if the error
> > rate is very low.
>
>I suppose we're way off in the weeds, here, but is the noise actually
>unbounded? Or does it just behave in a Gaussian-like manner within the realm
>of times/rates that matter for shipping product? I suppose if I sat in my
>chair for long enough, a truly unbounded system might cause a gold bar to
>pop into existence on my desk, but my empirical GBR (gold-bar rate) is
>currently 0.
>
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