On 2026-03-05, Peter Flass <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/4/26 15:35, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > >> On Wed, 4 Mar 2026 14:09:58 -0700, Peter Flass wrote: >> >>> On 3/4/26 13:29, Carlos E.R. wrote: >>>> >>>> On 2026-03-04 21:01, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote: >>>> . >>>>> A man with one clock knows what time it is. A man with two is >>>>> never quite sure... >>>> >>>> Experimental science would not agree. >>> >>> You would need at least three. >> >> Three would be better than two, but two is already enough to come up >> with an error estimate on the measurement. > > No, because if two don't agree, one could be just plain wrong. The Space > Shuttle system had three processors run the same computation as a check.
And, IIRC, the third one was built and programmed by a different outfit. -- /~\ Charlie Gibbs | Growth for the sake of \ / <[email protected]> | growth is the ideology X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | of the cancer cell. / \ if you read it the right way. | -- Edward Abbey -- https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/python-list.python.org
