With a non-zero probability that the channel is in deep fade, the capacity of the slow-fading channel in strict sense is zero. However, it is possible to determine the largest value of R {\displaystyle R} such that the outage probability p o u t {\displaystyle p_{out}} is less than ϵ {\displaystyle \epsilon } . This value is known as the ϵ {\displaystyle \epsilon } -outage capacity.