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1) total outage is (.001)^k

2)(1-(.001^k))^365 gives you at least one connection every day of the year

3) doing 1 - (step 2) or 1-(1-(.001^k))^365 gives the probability of total outage at least once

4)plug in values of k until the number is less than .001

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