On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 03:38:04AM +0200, Eric Piel wrote:
> 11.06.2005 02:59, Paul E. McKenney wrote/a écrit:
> >On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 01:23:34AM +0200, Eric Piel wrote:
> >>What about using the way you wrote it at the beginning of the section:
> >>"Probability of missing a deadline only because of a hardware failure"
> >
> >
> >Good point, I may just need to invert the whole thing, so that it
> >becomes something like:
> >
> > i. Probability of missing a deadline due to software,
> > ranging from 0 to 1, with the value of 0 corresponding
> > to the hardest possible hard realtime.
> >
> >But then the "p^n" becomes "1-(1-p)^n". Bleah.
> Yes, it seems language doesn't fit well with mathematics ;-)
Hey, it could be worse. I am just glad that it is not normally necessary
to do integration by parts, trig substitutions, or Laplace transforms
on English sentences!!! ;-)
> >OK, how about the following?
> >
> > i. Probability of meeting a deadline in absence of hardware
> > failure, ranging from 0 to 1, with the value of 1
> > corresponding to the hardest possible hard realtime.
> >
> Sounds good!
OK, I made the change! Thank you for catching this one, good eyes!
Thanx, Paul
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