[ILUG] Linux uptime statistics

[Brian Foster]

  | Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 10:45:33 -0700
  | From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
  | 
  | Quoting Liam Bedford (lbedford at lbedford.org):
  | > 90 days is a rough estimate of a quarter,
  | > which leaves out a whole day  or so..

 er, 4 x 90 = 360, so it misses c.5¼ days/year (i.e.,
 is missing more than 100% x 5.25/365.25 ≈ 1.4% of a year),
 or 60s/m x 60m/h x 24h/d x 5.25d/y ≈ c.453600 seconds/year;
 which means the error bar on the 3, or 300, or even 3000
 seconds/year not-working-time numbers is multiple orders
 of magnitude larger.....
 oops!
 only astronomers are allowed to do that.  ;-)

  | > a year being 365.2something days longs..
  | 
  | So, you're saying my figure was accurate to within about _1%_?  ;->

 good enough for politicians, managers,
 and to make yer point.
cheers!
	-blf-
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