[time-nuts] Cesium C Field Set?

John Ackermann N8UR jra at febo.com
Fri Feb 11 19:21:41 EST 2005


Bill Hawkins wrote:

>We could get a little more quantitative about "impact" because there is
>a relationship between the number of digits displayed and the number of
>digits of accuracy. If you have an eight digit interval counter then
>10e-9 is enough accuracy. You can do that with the crystal in some
>counters if it has been calibrated, but your external standard certainly
>has enough accuracy.
>  
>

Good point, but my 5370 counter has 11 digits of time resolution (as, I 
think, does Brooke's SR620), so the exponents start to get pretty small...

John




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