In October, 1994, a flaw in a certain Pentium chipinstalled in computers was discovered that could result ina wrong answer when performing a division. The manufacturerinitially claimed that the chance of any particulardivision being incorrect was only 1 in 9 billion, so that itwould take thousands of years before a typical userencountered a mistake. However, statisticians are nottypical users; some modern statistical techniques are socomputationally intensive that a billion divisions over ashort time period is not outside the realm of possibility.Assuming that the 1 in 9 billion figure is correct and thatresults of different divisions are independent of oneanother, what is the probability that at least one erroroccurs in one billion divisions with this chip?

In October, 1994, a flaw in a certain Pentium chipinstalled in computers was discovered that could result ina wrong answer when performing a division. The manufacturerinitially claimed that the chance of any particulardivision being incorrect was only 1 in 9 billion, so that itwould take thousands of years before a typical userencountered a mistake. However, statisticians are nottypical users; some modern statistical techniques are socomputationally intensive that a billion divisions over ashort time period is not outside the realm of possibility.Assuming that the 1 in 9 billion figure is correct and thatresults of different divisions are independent of oneanother, what is the probability that at least one erroroccurs in one billion divisions with this chip?

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A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)

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