From: JP Thornley <jpt@diphi.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Using "delay until" in real-time
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 21:18:28 +0000
Date: 2000-12-12T21:18:28+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <iA1duAAkYpN6Iw1g@diphi.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 915jl7$jt5$1@nnrp1.deja.com
In article <915jl7$jt5$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Ted Dennison
<dennison@telepath.com> writes
>1/60 works out to about 0.016(6-repeating). That can't be accurately
>represented in an IEEE floating-point register. So what we get is
>something like 0.016667 (forgive me if I'm rounding the wrong digit).
Why not use 3 'minor' cycles in a 'major' cycle.
The major cycle then has an exact delay of 0.05, and the minor cycles
are offset by 0.016667 and 0.033333 within the major cycle.
Cheers,
Phil Thornley
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JP Thornley
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2000-12-12 16:27 Using "delay until" in real-time Ted Dennison
2000-12-12 18:01 ` Mike Silva
2000-12-12 19:57 ` Ted Dennison
2000-12-12 23:02 ` Mike Silva
2000-12-12 23:49 ` Ted Dennison
2000-12-18 6:26 ` Ray Blaak
2000-12-12 20:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-12-12 20:40 ` Ted Dennison
2000-12-13 4:02 ` Ken Garlington
2000-12-13 14:29 ` Ted Dennison
2000-12-13 16:53 ` Larry Hazel
2000-12-13 17:41 ` Ted Dennison
2000-12-12 20:22 ` Keith Thompson
2000-12-12 20:54 ` Ted Dennison
2000-12-13 5:35 ` tmoran
2000-12-12 20:23 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2000-12-12 21:58 ` Ted Dennison
2000-12-12 23:18 ` Jeff Carter
2000-12-12 21:18 ` JP Thornley [this message]
2000-12-12 22:31 ` Ted Dennison
2000-12-13 8:02 ` Brian Orpin
2000-12-13 17:32 ` JP Thornley
2000-12-12 23:09 ` Ted Dennison
2000-12-13 7:43 ` Brian Orpin
2000-12-15 0:27 ` Frank
2000-12-19 7:50 ` Martin Gangkofer
2000-12-20 3:32 ` Ted Dennison
2000-12-20 5:29 ` tmoran
2000-12-20 7:59 ` Martin Gangkofer
2000-12-20 9:15 ` java servlets JF Harrison
2000-12-20 12:50 ` Using "delay until" in real-time Marin David Condic
2000-12-21 0:08 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2000-12-20 3:17 ` Ted Dennison
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