[time-nuts] HP 5370B

Magnus Danielson magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org
Sun May 11 05:21:12 EDT 2008


From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk at phk.freebsd.dk>
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] HP 5370B
Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 06:36:26 +0000
Message-ID: <2934.1210487786 at critter.freebsd.dk>

> In message <000701c8b317$01c66ca0$0a01a8c0 at didierhp>, "Didier Juges" writes:
> 
> >> If a piece of black tape covering the lsd would turn
> >> 2.01 into 2.0, would that solve the problem?
> 
> Doesn't that only solve the problem if the black tape knows about 4/5
> rounding ?

The tape does not know anything about the rounding, but it proves to show that
it solves a stupid problem to start with. It makes it bleeding obvious.

Cheers,
Magnus



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