[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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