Precision and accuracy

[Achim Gratz]

Gary E. Miller writes:
> And before we can continue, for clarity, I'm going to try to define a
> few terms.  Given the terminology swamp that is NTP, do not try too
> hard to apply this to the same words defined and used differently by 
> NTP.  Even worse NTP is not self consistent.  Context is everything.

That list of definitions already exists since at least the year 2000, so
maybe you'll read up on it there:

https://www.ijs.si/time/

There is quite a bit of other interesting and useful informationon that
page, so it's worth reading even if you don't agree.

> Many will disagree with my terms, for those that do, just think of the
> names I use as random variable names and try to follow the concept.

Claiming the Humpty-Dumpty privilege usually doesn't improve the
communications.


Regards,
Achim.
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