It is my understanding that they actually got it a bit wrong, which is
why we seem to have a lot of leap seconds.
David
On 5/8/12 9:19 PM, paul swed wrote:
Thanks downloaded the paper. I assume the hyper fine transition happened to
be the one nearest that frequency? You can tune to either side of the peak
and get a lock on the next transition.
Regards
Paul.
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 9:14 PM, David C. Partridge<
[email protected]> wrote:
It's unlikely you'll ever see a negative leap second - the earth's
rotation is slowing down, not speeding up.
Dave
-----Original Message-----
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Sent: 09 May 2012 01:56
To: [email protected]; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Why 9,192,631,770 ??
It is interesting that the leap seconds correction is always a positive
number.
Jerry
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