[time-nuts] I think I've become a Volt nut too.

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Tue Jan 12 04:01:09 UTC 2010


>> But if you had 1000 references, or maybe 100,000, the law of
>> large numbers would be on your side =) 

aa8k at comcast.net said:
> True, but there is always a probability that they all happen to  be
> off one way.

> Quite a small probability, but not impossible. 

I'm not so sure it's small.  

Suppose they are all calibrated to the same buggy source?

Or suppose they all started correct but have a common aging mechanism?


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