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From: Cesar Rabak <csrabak@yahoo.com.br>
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Subject: Re: accuracy
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 16:36:11 -0200
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Stephen Leake escreveu:
> "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:
> 
>> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message
>> news:p87mtsns4of0.hhld0y03415s.dlg@40tude.net...
>> ...
>>> As for GetThreadTimes, its absolute precision is 1ms.
>> No, it is 10ms. The interface offers more precision than is actually
>> provided.
> 
> Technically, "precision" is the number of bits in a value. "accuracy"
> is how many of those bits are meaningful.
> 
Isn't the number of bits of the value the 'resolution', precision being 
a way of describing the dispersion of the values and accuracy the 
distance to the actual quantity�?

--
Cesar Rabak


[1] The last two defs already written in this thread w/other words.