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A catalogue is not a plan, and these ten differ enormously in how much damage accrues before anyone notices. For a mode m with arrival rate $\lambda_m$ , mean time to detection $\tau_m$ , and cost per undetected instance $\ell_m$ , the loss accrued before intervention is approximately

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