Sunday, September 7, 2008

f(x) = ?

Per my post yesterday on the DVR capacity: I have discovered an oddity. It goes like this:
- only "Project Runway" on DVR (1 hr): 9% full
- "Project Runway" and two "Fox News with Brit Hume" (each 1 hr): 12% full

So we can clearly see that the DVR storage is strongly nonlinear. If the first hour is 9% and the next two are only 3% combined, well, the next hundred hours should only be some percentage where x < 1%. Thus, I should be able to get, generally estimated, about 1 million hours on this thing.

This is a prime example of how mathematicians would think and why pure math is boring, misleading, and boring. Engineers rule, others drool.

1 comment:

ThatOneRedhead said...

How much space does it take if there is nothing on there? Is there a baseline capacity used for folders, etc?