Yes and in that small bundle of code, the combinations extrapolated to the
Nth +1 magnitude only nets 1.6384 times e10th power. Thus more than one or
two likelihoods of......oops.
In a different perspective, should one test the above probabilities at a
rate of 1000 per day it would require some 44887 years to fully explore. I
doubt that any company could be expected to fully explore the bundle to the
full extent. Thank goodness for computers and emulators that can do this at
a much faster rate. Still, these items only test the combinations that they
are instructed to test, and this is done by lowly humans.
73
Bob, K4TAX
The processor board with 20 chips and 100 glue logic parts is
manageable. The 128,000 bytes of SW that runs on that board is far more
complex and nearly impossible to exhaustively test ... at least at a
price we're willing to pay.
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