From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,e81fd3a32a1cacd2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 23:21:46 -0600 From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: accuracy References: X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 23:21:47 -0600 NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.164.83.70 X-Trace: sv3-aHs5yCnX7fZIQuIPRtS2Ijz8oUUc0fbTy0+3GWbizmfha3jVw2EH8KjngkTdzRgS6qYDZJlMHlJU1rr!WxHQPYv7Vi/bmlualBpEf4k1Io6GDAdfRYMuqvp2irE8Js9cIAtyb/f9ADvA8e7pfoP2/ivxZQPw!LXpP50P85aC409rdrUFgLADAuD7V X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.34 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14460 Date: 2007-03-10T23:21:47-06:00 List-Id: > > too much asynchronous going on for any "lock-step" to continue for long. If random stuff is independent that will generate noise that a large sample size can minimize, but there may be "caravan" effects or sample-frequency aliasing or some such things making the timing samples non-independent.