[time-nuts] GPSDO and oscillator steering - EFC vs DDS schemes?

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Wed Dec 9 15:03:33 EST 2015


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In message <566883D1.6050607 at rubidium.dyndns.org>, Magnus Danielson writes:

>Indeed. As any engineering time estimate, you need to multiply with pi. 
>At work, we engineers divide our estimates with pi before giving it to 
>the project managers, as they will multiply with pi before putting it 
>into their time-plan. :)

Interesting.

In computing we make a random guess at the duration.

The manager is supposed to multiply the numeric part by two and
shift the unit to the next higher one.

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