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From: colonel@ellie.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
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Subject: Re: bugs in assembler vs. C
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Date: Tue, 25-Feb-86 16:01:33 EST
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> On point B:, studies have shown that the number of errors or changes is
> exponentially related to the number of lines of code.  One study indicates
> that the average is one error per 1000 lines.

You don't mean "exponentially," do you?  (Though it applies to _some_
programmers I know....)
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Col. G. L. Sicherman
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