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

Chuck Harris cfharris at erols.com
Tue Jan 12 05:12:07 UTC 2010


That will only be true of primary standards.  Secondary standards
must be calibrated to some "primary standard".  If all 100,000 of
your secondary standards were calibrated to the wrong value, they
will all have values that hover around that wrong value.

-Chuck Harris

john.foege at gmail.com wrote:
> But if you had 1000 references, or maybe 100,000, the law of large numbers would be on your side =)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Naruta AA8K <aa8k at comcast.net>
> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:24:30 
> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement<time-nuts at febo.com>
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] I think I've become a Volt nut too.
> 
> 
> Ah, but it is possible that all 14 could be off in the same 
> direction.
> 
> Sorry.




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