In message <518e2c65.80...@rubidium.dyndns.org>, Magnus Danielson writes:
>The end result will be a clock which in long term is showing the right >time, but have short term variations. Since it is a lag scheme, it will >also on average be behind. Wouldn't it be easier to simply implement a random walk with a square-law sort of gravity anchored at the right time ? That way it would sometimes be ahead, sometimes behind, but keep correct time on average. And you could make the movement truly random and non-periodic. I'm sure that's how the watchmakers guild did it. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ 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.
