[time-nuts] Hanging bridge question
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Tue Mar 25 07:27:49 EDT 2014
In message <6B362A4D-834A-4733-BED8-FCFEC0CCBA6C at rtty.us>, Bob Camp writes:
I should add here, that you _can_ do a little bit better than the
sawtooth correction.
We know, or at least assume, that the GPS's internal clock is step-less
and slowly changing, so if you put a predictive filter on this stuff,
it can actually do a reasonable job at estimating which way the rounding
of the sawtooth correction went (since it is integral ns).
This reduces the random rounding error on the sawtooth correction
from +/- 0.5 ns to something like +/- 0.3 ns.
Totally not worth it, but a cool and educational project :-)
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