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If the average failure rate is 400 years and the failure rate is close to Gaussian, how many coke bottles can you store in your warehouse for a month and expect
by njarboe 8y ago
If the average failure rate is 400 years and the failure rate is close to Gaussian, how many coke bottles can you store in your warehouse for a month and expect not to have one leak? Not having a bottle leak is the whole point of a bottle. It might not matter to you if every once in a while a bottle you are handling leaks, but if you are shipping millions of them around in harsh conditions it would be nice not to have your truck covered in sticky corn syrup when you get to the store to off load.
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- bunderbunder 8y agoWell, it depends. Is the standard deviation on that distribution ~400 years, or ~400 microseconds?
- njarboe 8y agoTrue, but I imagine that at the start they kept changing the bottles so they were made with as little plastic as practical while still not bursting very often while shipping and in storage. One burst per million over 3 months? Wonder what kind of mean time to burst that would give the group?