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

[Hal Murray]

aa8k at comcast.net said:
> It is not impossible that for a sample of 100,000 secondary
> standards, that the errors would be all be off in the same  direction,
> compared to the standard's value.

> Now, granted, this would be a small probability indeed.  But it  is
> possible to toss a coin fifty times and have fifty "heads".  The smart
> bet is that it won't. 

You need to consider systematic errors.

50 heads is simple if you are using a 2 headed coin.  Yes, that's an extreme 
example.

But consider 100,000 pendulums that are all right-on and then the temperature 
changes.



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