Time Resolution

Ashley Yakeley ashley at semantic.org
Tue Feb 1 06:07:36 EST 2005


In article <87acqor67i.fsf at qrnik.zagroda>,
 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <qrczak at knm.org.pl> wrote:

> 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.

If I read you correctly, your complaint is that certain calculations 
would be too accurate, thus leading to large representation.

-- 
Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA



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