David J Taylor wrote: > Uwe Klein wrote: > >>Richard B. gilbert wrote: > > [] > >>>That's an interesting article but it misuses the word "precision". >>>Precision is a property of your clock and can be thought of as the >>>smallest possible difference in time that the clock can measure. >> >>isn't that "resolution" ? >>iananes ( i am not a native english speaker ;-) >> >>>A clock can have a precision of 1 microsecond and still be five >>>minutes slow! >>> >> >>uwe > > > Uwe, > > I suspect these terms mean what you choose them to mean. Here is what > Google has to offer: > > > http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4SUNA_en___GB202&q=define%3a+precision > > (includes both "number of digits" and "degree of refinement") > > > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4SUNA_en___GB202&q=define%3A+resolution&btnG=Search > > (includes "measure of accuracy or dynamic range of an A/D or D/A > converter" and "smallest quantity that can be measured"). > > From this, I would suggest: > > precision - degree of correctness > > resolution - accuracy of measurement > > Perhaps NTP has its own definitions?
Indeed it does! See RFC-1305 page 11. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
