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Re: Predictable Internet Time

Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> Tue, 03 January 2017 23:22 UTC

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Subject: Re: Predictable Internet Time
To: Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com>, Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
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On 1/3/2017 1:57 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
> The reason I think the 20 hour current scheme is better is this:
>
> 1 	0.041666667 	0.05
> 2 	0.083333333 	0.1
> 3 	0.125 	0.15
> 4 	0.166666667 	0.2
> 5 	0.208333333 	0.25
> 6 	0.25 	0.3
>
>
> The second column is increments for the 24 hour change, the second for
> the 20 hour. As you can see, 24 hours means dealing with rounding.
> That is fine for Internet apps but an unnecessary source of error for
> scientific.

It depends on your representation. In base 10, the second column has
repeating digits but not the third.

In base 2, they both repeat so it really doesn't matter.

Joe

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