[LEAPSECS] private smear goes public

Brooks Harris brooks at edlmax.com
Wed Nov 30 23:16:26 EST 2016


On 2016-11-30 10:23 PM, Michael Shields via LEAPSECS wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 7:06 PM, Brooks Harris <brooks at edlmax.com> wrote:
>> One wishes announments like this were a bit more accurate. They say "...
>> we'll run the clocks 0.0014% slower across the ten hours before and ten
>> hours after the leap second ...", but I think it must be closer to
>> 0.00138888 percent. I wonder what precision they use?
> It would, of course, take an infinite number of decimal digits to
> represent the actual ratio.
Yes. An ever irritating fact of life.
> The calculations are done at nanosecond
> precision.
OK, makes sense. Thanks.
-Brooks

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