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Old 05-24-2013, 04:22 PM   #26
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Originally Posted by Hawaiian View Post
Your math is pretty awful. At a $1000 repair bill per car broken and a 1% failure rate that's $10 per car built or only $100,000 Per 10,000 cars built.
And I was so close! Just a factor of 10.... Reminds me of office space:

Peter Gibbons: Michael! Michael! You said the thing was gonna take two years! What happened? You said the thing was supposed to work.
Michael Bolton: Well, technically it did work.
Peter Gibbons: No it didn't!
Samir: It did not work, Michael, okay?
Michael Bolton: Okay! Okay! Okay!
Samir: Okay?
Michael Bolton: Okay! I must have put a decimal point in the wrong place or something. Shit! I always do that. I always mess up some mundane detail.
Peter Gibbons: Oh! What is this fairly mundane detail, Michael?
Michael Bolton: Okay, quit getting pissed at me, all right? This was all your idea, asshole!
Peter Gibbons: All right. Okay. All right. Let's try not to get pissed off at each other, all right? Let's just calm down. Let's try to figure this thing out together. The first thing we gotta do is we gotta close that account down before it gets any bigger.


Despite my ineptness at math, an automotive company notices a 1% failure rate. Especially on a high volume vehicle.
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