Time Resolution

Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk qrczak at knm.org.pl
Tue Feb 1 04:16:01 EST 2005


Ashley Yakeley <ashley at semantic.org> writes:

> Well, how do you feel about using Rationals everywhere?

The numerator and denominator can too easily become huge, e.g. if one
is computing absolute times of an event repeating in uneven intervals,
without retrieving a rounded value from the system clock each time.
He won't easily notice that the numbers grow out of control.

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