>> Well, I asked on IRC what I should do for these definitions because
>> I'm too tired to decide what to do. [[...]] I replaced these definitions
>> with yours.
>
> That was nice of you. In return, I'll go over the PEP to check that
> usage is appropriate (eg, in some places "resolution" was use
On 19Apr2012 10:47, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
| On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Victor Stinner
| wrote:
| > Well, I asked on IRC what I should do for these definitions because
| > I'm too tired to decide what to do. [[...]] I replaced these definitions
with yours.
|
| That was nice of you. I
> That was nice of you. In return, I'll go over the PEP to check that
> usage is appropriate (eg, in some places "resolution" was used in the
> sense of computer science's "precision" == reported digits).
Oh, this is very likely :-)
> BTW, this not a criticism, you did a great job of putting all
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Victor Stinner
wrote:
> Well, I asked on IRC what I should do for these definitions because
> I'm too tired to decide what to do. [[...]] I replaced these definitions with
> yours.
That was nice of you. In return, I'll go over the PEP to check that
usage is app
>> If anyone is motivated to write a perfect (or at least better) glossary,
>> please do it!
>
> We don't want a perfect glossary, we want one we agree on, that
> defines terms consistently with the way they're used in the PEP.
> However, what I read in this thread is that the PEP protagonist
> do
On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:50:13 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 4/18/2012 2:45 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Victor Stinner
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Ok ok, resolution / accuracy / precision are confusing (or at least
> >> not well known concepts).
> >
> > Maybe not t
On 4/18/2012 2:45 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Victor Stinner
wrote:
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 a
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Victor Stinner
wrote:
> If anyone is motivated to write a perfect (or at least better) glossary,
> please do it!
We don't want a perfect glossary, we want one we agree on, that
defines terms consistently with the way they're used in the PEP.
However, what I read
>> 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_coun
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Victor Stinner
wrote:
> 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:
Resolution: the smallest dif
On 17Apr2012 08:35, R. David Murray wrote:
| On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:48:22 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
| > On 16Apr2012 01:25, Victor Stinner wrote:
| > | I suppose that most people don't care that "resolution" and
| > | "precision" are different things.
| >
| > If we're using the same definit
On 18Apr2012 00:18, Chris Angelico wrote:
| On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
| > On 16Apr2012 01:25, Victor Stinner wrote:
| > | I suppose that most people don't care that "resolution" and
| > | "precision" are different things.
| >
| > If we're using the same definitions
> I think what the user cares about is "what is the smallest tick that
> this clock result will faithfully represent?". If the number of bits
> returned is larger than the clock accuracy, you want the clock accuracy.
> If the number of bits returned is smaller than the clock accuracy,
> you want t
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 16Apr2012 01:25, Victor Stinner wrote:
> | I suppose that most people don't care that "resolution" and
> | "precision" are different things.
>
> If we're using the same definitions we discussed offline, where
>
> - resolution is the un
On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:48:22 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 16Apr2012 01:25, Victor Stinner wrote:
> | I suppose that most people don't care that "resolution" and
> | "precision" are different things.
>
> If we're using the same definitions we discussed offline, where
>
> - resolution is
On 16Apr2012 01:25, Victor Stinner wrote:
| I suppose that most people don't care that "resolution" and
| "precision" are different things.
If we're using the same definitions we discussed offline, where
- resolution is the units the clock call (underneath) works in (for
example, nanosecon
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