Фигурка "Terminator" Series 3. Kyle Reese

So it's questionable whether you can even ful- fill the intended reduction in your total operational expense, the one measurement you expected to improve." "How can that be?" "Because of the combinations of two phenomena which are found in every plant," he says. "One phenomenon is called 'de- pendent events.' Do you know what I mean by that term? I mean that an event, or a series of events, must take place before an- 93 other can begin... the subsequent event depends upon the ones prior to it. You follow?" "Yeah, sure," I say. "But what's the big deal about that?" "The big deal occurs when dependent events are in combi- nation with another phenomenon called 'statistical fluctuations,'' he says. "Do you know what those are?" I shrug. "Fluctuations in statistics, right?" "Let me put it this way," he says. "You know that some types of information can be determined precisely. For instance, if we need to know the seating capacity in this restaurant, we can de- termine it precisely by counting the number of chairs at each table." He points around the room. "But there are other kinds of information we cannot pre- cisely predict ...»