In message 
<9d04b979323dcd428297dda95108893e0406d...@bb-corp-ex2.corp.cubic.cub>, 
dated Mon, 19 Jul 2010, "Price, Edward" <ed.pr...@cubic.com> writes:

>And "Mad Man Muntz" eventually lent his name to the EMC engineering 
>technique of designing in all possible suppression and protection 
>devices, and then, during qual testing, discarding a few at a time 
>until bad things happened. At that point, you knew exactly what minimum 
>level of EMC components you needed to just barely get through the 
>requirements!

Not really, because the order in which you discard them matters. It's a 
combinatorial problem, requiring quasi-infinite time to solve if there 
are more than a few such parts.(;-)
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