ntpq peers formatting needs floating point for time slots.

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Hal!

On Tue, 07 Feb 2017 02:56:24 -0800
Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:

> gem at rellim.com said:
> > OTOH, prolly best to set it to -30, just for grins.  Someday it
> > might matter, or I might have missed something, or just to seem to
> > do the right thing.   
> 
> Looks like we are getting into the old precision vs accuracy tangle.

In Selsky's case, his resolution, his precision and his acccuracy are all
really -30.

> Do we have a glossary with useful descriptions?

Nope.

> That slot should represent the number of useful bits.

Yup.  And in Selsky's case he really does have -30.

RGDS
GARY
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