[time-nuts] 5370 processor boards available

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sat Mar 1 05:31:27 EST 2014


In message <5311B3EB.1000409 at rubidium.dyndns.org>, Magnus Danielson writes:

>What one possibly could do is to see if there is any round-off issues 
>that causes any noise.

The HP5370 firmware uses floating point to avoid exactly that issue,
and all the math I've traced is good and competent.


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