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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <jacob@jacob-sparre.dk>
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Subject: Re: how to analyze clock drift
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 11:30:12 +0100
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Emanuel Berg wrote:

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

Try to subtract a linear fit and plot the result.  There may be a
short-term systematic pattern, but over longer time, it looks like you
have a slowly, randomly drifting function.

Greetings,

Jacob
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