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 This means the fewer possibilities there are that a mistake is made, the fewer there will be. As mistakes are generally undesirable, a design is better when there are fewer possibilities for something to go wrong. This means the fewer possibilities there are that a mistake is made, the fewer there will be. As mistakes are generally undesirable, a design is better when there are fewer possibilities for something to go wrong.
  
-Note that ML does //not// claim that everything constantly fails unless there is no possibility to do so. It simply says that statistically in the long run a system will fail if it can.+
 ===== Strategies ===== ===== Strategies =====
  
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