[1/*] If we take the chance that a tool (compiler, linker, batch, whatever) remains working for a particular codebase after one year as a given probability p, then the chance that build remains working after x years is p^xn, where n is the number of tools used in the build.
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If you have two probabilities (p and q), and you want to know if both will happen, you multiply them together. So "p*q" is the chance that _both_ p and q will happen.
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Ergo, if you have n tools, each with a probability of working p, then it is p*p*p*...*p, with n p's. Which is just p^n.
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