>> Ok ok, resolution / accuracy / precision are confusing (or at least >> not well known concepts). > > Maybe not to us, but in fields like astronomy and mechanical > engineering there are commonly accepted definitions:
I was just talking of the name of the time.perf_counter() function: "perf_counter" vs "high_precision" vs "high_resolution" (or even "highres") names. For the defintion of these words, see the Glossary in the PEP. http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0418/#glossary It already contains a link to the Wikipedia article "Accuracy_and_precision". I don't want to spend days on this glossary. If anyone is motivated to write a perfect (or at least better) glossary, please do it! And send me the diff of the pep-0418.txt file. I don't really feel qualified (nor motivated) to write/maintain such glossary. Victor _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
