I was using 90 deg = 10000000 m as approximation. I forgot about the sign but as I recall the leading 1 is surpressed. 360 deg on 25 bits. Reducing approx gave me 10 and 3 bits. Cheers Magnus
-------- Originalmeddelande -------- Från: Mark Sims <hol...@hotmail.com> Datum: Till: time-nuts@febo.com Rubrik: [time-nuts] GPS position survey Earth circumference is around 25,000 miles -> 132E6 feet. 24 bit mantissa (23 bits plus sign) gives a resolution in this application of around 15.7 feet since negative measurements don't apply. ----------------------- Oh... 24 bit mantissa should give 1.25 m resolution if my headcounting is about right _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
