[time-nuts] New frequency standard, Mercury better than Cesium?
Dave Andersen
dga+ at cs.cmu.edu
Sun Jul 16 13:43:53 EDT 2006
Compare your clock to an ensemble of really good clocks.
-Dave
Hal Murray wrote:
> From the horses mouth:
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> http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/releases/mercury_atomic_clock.htm
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> This brings up a question I've been meaning to ask for a while.
>
> How do you tell how good your best clock is? I can figure out how good a
> not-great clock is by comparing it to a better one. But what if there isn't
> a better one?
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