> On Aug 1, 2016, at 9:33 AM, Chris Albertson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > In fact that would be a good experiment: Put two clocks up on a large > computer monitor and make one always tick some random number of > milliseconds away from system time and the other always thick on the > system time. Then you click on the one you think is correct. Can you > do better than a 50/50 guess. Keep incl=reasing the error until the > guesses are about 90% correct. I bet you find you eyes are really > bad. You ears are a little better and you might notice 40 mS by > listening to the "tick" sound >
I’ve done something akin to this with my Crazy Clock movements. The Vetinari clock works by stealing 100 ms from a fraction of the ticks until it’s gathered up enough to do a “double tick.” I wrote the firmware and I can’t tell which seconds are 100 ms off. There’s also the “Whacky” firmware. It ticks on a random tenth of a second within each second. In practice, it’s far more subtle than I thought it would be. It’s only really obvious when it picks values far apart from their neighbors. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
