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From: tmoran@acm.org
Subject: Re: Fairly simple question about using time in Ada
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 19:44:32 GMT
Date: 2001-10-04T19:44:32+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <A_2v7.3625$IY3.2565370@news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: cf2a9c38.0110040956.45ddd0d5@posting.google.com

>accuracy of a number and the precision of a number. They are
>different! What you need for good time stamps is accuracy (fidelity to
>reality), not precision (number of bits or digits used to represent
>the value).
  Accuracy is what www.adapower.com/reuse/tt.html is about.



      reply	other threads:[~2001-10-04 19:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-29  1:26 Fairly simple question about using time in Ada Chris Vinall
2001-09-29  2:33 ` James Rogers
2001-10-02  5:56   ` tmoran
2001-09-29 12:44 ` DuckE
2001-10-03 10:27   ` Petter Fryklund
2001-10-04 10:03 ` Alfred Hilscher
2001-10-04 17:56 ` R. Tim Coslet
2001-10-04 19:44   ` tmoran [this message]
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