Re: Precision and accuracy

2017-02-26 Thread Gary E. Miller
Yo Achim! On Sun, 26 Feb 2017 13:58:36 +0100 Achim Gratz wrote: > That list of definitions already exists since at least the year 2000, > so maybe you'll read up on it there: > https://www.ijs.si/time/ Interesting, but a bit dated and I do not totally agree with their

Re: Precision and accuracy

2017-02-26 Thread Achim Gratz
Gary E. Miller writes: > And before we can continue, for clarity, I'm going to try to define a > few terms. Given the terminology swamp that is NTP, do not try too > hard to apply this to the same words defined and used differently by > NTP. Even worse NTP is not self consistent. Context is

Re: Precision and accuracy

2017-01-21 Thread Kurt Roeckx
usefull only when you are already > lost, and only for one particular type of noise, not useful. > > Time and time again I have heard: you only use standard deviation > when you are already lost. I 100% agree with that. This is really about having the same coverage as the standard devi

Re: Precision and accuracy

2017-01-20 Thread Kurt Roeckx
behind the decimal place, so for example 1.234. The resolution is 1 mV. (That's millivolt) It does not say anything about the precision or the accuracy of that meter. Suppose you have a reference voltage that has a voltage of exactly 1.0 V. And you measure that voltage with your voltmeter, and it

Precision and accuracy

2017-01-20 Thread Gary E. Miller
Yo Kurt! Note I have changed the Subject of this thread as it no longer had any relationship to libsodium. And before we can continue, for clarity, I'm going to try to define a few terms. Given the terminology swamp that is NTP, do not try too hard to apply this to the same words defined and