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 Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.germany.com!news.osn.de!diablo2.news.osn.de!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newspeer1.se.telia.net!se.telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newsb.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn?= Persson Subject: accuracy (was: Does Ada tasking profit from multi-core cpus?) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <1170071840.010200.85210@s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com> <1173089302.125025.31370@t69g2000cwt.googlegroups.com> <0dmdnZIAd76ZpXPYnZ2dnUVZ_uCinZ2d@comcast.com> <1lq9zxgrnvfjx$.17ip3w3ei4xdb.dlg@40tude.net> User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit Message-ID: Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:18:11 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.251.159.188 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsb.telia.net 1173388691 83.251.159.188 (Thu, 08 Mar 2007 22:18:11 CET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 22:18:11 CET Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14427 Date: 2007-03-08T21:18:11+00:00 List-Id: Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > If it were just inaccurate then the obtained values would be like > ThreadTime + Error where Error has zero mean. No, that's "imprecise". Shots distributed evenly over a shooting target is bad precision. A tight group of shots at one side of the target is good precision but bad accuracy. -- Bj�rn Persson PGP key A88682FD omb jor ers @sv ge. r o.b n.p son eri nu