Tuesday, July 7, 2009

The Briggs Constant

I've always wanted to make an important scientific discovery. I don't think it gets any better than this:

Nfunctioning = B x Nmanufactured

Where Nfunctioning is the number of bolts required to operate a device and Nmanufactured is the number of bolts originally installed.

B=0.5 for just about everything.

1 comment:

  1. I've found that B can be a low as 0.1 of you have a pack of cable ties lying around.

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