"Enoch Root" wrote in message
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Edwin Pawlowski wrote:

I once heard a story, and it might be apocryphal, of a quality spec.
given by (IBM?) to a japanese company they'd tapped for a supply of
(stepper?) motors. Although they had misread the intent of the spec.,
they very diligently included 1.5 defective motors per hundred, and
asked why IBM should want that.


LOL. Well at least IBM would know which 1.5 motors per hundred would be
defective and would not have to allow for the liability quantity of motors
to fail. :~)