[time-nuts] Is it Hz or MHz ?

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Jun 2 03:39:08 EDT 2014


In message <595D85DC050442D88D7AC80A4476610B at dd09>, "Kit Scally" writes:

>The question - is this "accuracy" with respect to 1Hz - or 10MHz ?

Both, because it's a relative measure:

Your 1Hz will be between 0.99999999999 and 1.00000000001 Hz

Your 10MHz will be 9999999.9999 and 10000000.0001 Hz.

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