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> Yes but still reliability engineering related issues can be done in matlab
> e.g.

This is true. But the way you asked the question initially didn't include
any mention of whether or not you were performing these types of
computations in MATLAB, which is why us suggested you seek out a
statistics-related newsgroup.

If your question is "I have this formula for total reliability, how do I
implement it in MATLAB?" or "Does MATLAB have a function to compute the
total reliability?" then this is the right newsgroup on which to ask your
question. [I don't know the answer to the latter of those questions; I
would suggest looking at the Statistics Toolbox documentation on the Support
section of http://www.mathworks.com to determine the answer.]

If your question is "What is the formula for total reliability?" then a
newsgroup like sci.stat.math would be a more appropriate place to ask, as
it's not really MATLAB related at that point. If your news server doesn't
carry sci.stat.math, look at Google Groups (http://groups.google.com) or
another free newsgroup hosting site. Alternately, if this is a homework
problem for a statistics course (it sounds similar to the types of
probability and statistics questions I remember from my courses) then you
likely have a textbook, a teaching assistant, and/or your professor that you
can use as a resource to help you answer this question.

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From: Walter Roberson on
Samoline1 Linke wrote:

> Yes but still reliability engineering related issues can be done in
> matlab e.g.

It is not difficult to write a Turing Machine in Matlab (with a finite
tape anyhow.) Fundamental computing theorems tell us that it is thus
possible to compute anything in Matlab that is deterministically
computable (within the storage limitations.)

Since it is possible to use Matlab to compute anything deterministically
computable, does that mean that this newsgroup is fair ground for
discussion of anything that is deterministically computable? Since it
*could* be done in Matlab?