Royal Pain

[James Knott]

Robert Brockway wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, James Knott wrote:
> 
> 
>>And of course, it's impossible to prove there are no bugs.  You can only
>>fail to find some.
> 
> 
> See fvwm2(1) [1].  Checkout the "bugs" section.
> 
> BUGS
>        As of fvwm version 2.4.0 there were exactly 71.8 unidenti
>        fied bugs. Since then 22.825 bugs have been fixed.  Assum
>        ing that there are at least 10 unidentified bugs for every
>        identified  one,  that leaves us with 71.8 - 22.825 + 10 *
>        22.825 = 277.225 unidentified bugs. If we follow  this  to
>        its  logical conclusion we will have an infinite number of
>        unidentified bugs before the number of bugs can  start  to
>        diminish,  at  which  point  the program will be bug-free.
>        Since this is a computer program infinity = 3.4028e+38  if
>        you don't insist on double-precision.  At the current rate
>        of bug discovery we should expect to achieve this point in
>        4.27e+27  years.   I  guess we better plan on passing this
>        thing on to our children...
> 
> Rob
> 

And of course, Dilbert's pointy haired boss wants advance notice of 
unforseen problems.  ;-)


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