David L. Mills wrote: > David, > > Note that the nonsignificant bits at the low end of the fraction word > are purposly filled with a random bitstring. My machine has a > precisioni -19, so there are 19 meaningful bits in the fraction along > with a carefully manufactured 13 bits of fuzz. This is done both to > make it harder to predict timestamps and smooth out tiny wiggles due > to roundoff and bias. It doesn't make sense to split the microseconds > in the readouts. For what it's worth, the statistics files display > offsets to the nanosecond. > > Dave
Thanks, Dave. I hope that will help Eugen as well. 73, David _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
