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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
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Subject: Re: Using "delay until" in real-time
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 21:58:17 GMT
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In article <9161h3$7n0$1@hobbes2.crc.com>,
  "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com> wrote:
> Well... the first thing I'd do is to use Long_Float for the frequency.
> This alone will reduce the drift rate by 11 orders of magnitude, by
> providing 11 more correct (decimal) digits in the computation of
> the interval.

Again, getting hosed less often isn't the goal. I need to eliminate the
error entirely.

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