[time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 33, Issue 29

[Tom Van Baak]

> Incidentally, I've found that it is important to be quite careful with your
> floating point handling when representing a quantity of seconds with
> picosecond resolution in an IEEE 64-bit float.

Can you give me an example of where you'd run into this?

I ask because typically I think one normalizes incoming
data so it doesn't matter if the raw values are seconds or
picoseconds, and thus you get the same 54-bit precision
either way, no?

/tvb