Mario's revision of Murphy's Law:

"It's already gone wrong, you just don't know it yet."  =)

-Mario

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From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf
Of John Nall
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 7:31 PM
To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
Subject: [OT] All minus and no plus


To try and help bring everyone gradually down from their adrenaline 
high, after all that sex-and-religion stuff (what a combination!), and 
since James has canceled it (with what I would call perfect timing), let

me offer the following dry data.

I ordered Olin's EasyProg kit.  Which is neither here nor there, except 
that I did some data gathering during the process of putting it 
together, and I thought the results were interesting.   Being an old 
guy, and consequently having poor vision, I not only looked though a 
magnifying glass to identify each resistor value, but also checked each 
one with a ohmmeter.  This is a fairly expensive instrument, and so far 
as I know it is very accurate.

So here is the interesting part -- every single resister, with no 
exceptions, came in below the nominal value.  This is not any kind of 
problem, of course, since they were all within tolerance.  But one would

think (wouldn't one?) that some would be over, some would be under, and 
once in a great while one would be right on the money.  That is what 
statistics promises us.  Nope.  Not so.  Every single one comes in 
below.  So all minus, and no plus.  What does it all mean?  Does it 
relate to our not using the metric system???  :-)

John
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