Ian Batten said: > That paper claims that GPS time follows UTC (USNO) "modulo one second". I'm > trying to think of any meaning of the word "modulo", be it from discrete > mathematics, HAKMEM or anywhere else, with which that makes sense. Can > anyone hazard a guess at the meaning that is intended?
Yes. "x modulo y" means "the remainder when x is divided by y". While it's most often used for integers x and y, with y > 1, it has a perfectly good meaning for other cases. So angles, even fractional ones, are normally calculated modulo 360 or modulo 2pi. In this case, it's another way of saying that GPS-UTC is an integer. -- Clive D.W. Feather | If you lie to the compiler, Email: cl...@davros.org | it will get its revenge. Web: http://www.davros.org | - Henry Spencer Mobile: +44 7973 377646 _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
