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From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
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Subject: Re: how to analyze clock drift
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 03:10:22 +0100
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tmoran@acm.org writes:

> Not exactly an Ada question, but... The differences
> between successive values make a sawtooth pattern.
> Any idea why?

None.

Here is the file with some 500+ readings:

    http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/hs-linux/src/tick_times.log

This should really be fed some old-school batch
number-crunching algorithm.

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