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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