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by joezydeco 3062 days ago
It's a term carried over from the military/aerospace field.

https://www.f35.com/about/life-cycle/software

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I boggle a little at what I read there, such as "With Block 3i, 89 percent of code required for full warfighting capability is flying". That's 89%? Not 88% or 90%?
You can be sure the specs for something like the F35 run into the hundreds of thousands of pages. Tagging exactly 89% of the features as making that milestone is probably the easiest part of the work.