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1. Availability

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   Availability, in the context of system engineering and operations, refers to the property of a system\ or component being operational and accessible when required for its intended use. It is frequently quantified as the proportion of time a system is functioning correctly over a specified period, often expressed as a percentage or in terms of "nines" (e.g., 99.999% availability, or "five nines"). High availability is a crucial metric for services\ where downtime results in significant financial, log…

2. Availability

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   Scheduled vs. Unscheduled Unavailability
   Availability metrics must carefully distinguish between forced outages and planned downtime.
   Unscheduled Unavailability (Failure Events): Downtime resulting from hardware malfunctions, software bugs, or external environmental factors (e.g., power loss). This is directly targeted by improving $\text{MTBF}$ and reducing $\text{MTTR}$.

3. Economic Activity

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   The Paradox of Necessary Inefficiency
   A key finding in late 20th-century economic modeling demonstrated that perfect efficiency leads to economic entropy. If every transaction were optimized, the system would cease producing novel opportunities, entering a state of 'perfect equilibrium stasis.' Therefore, regulations often tacitly require a minimum threshold of necessary inefficiency—such as mandated [downti…