[time-nuts] I think I've become a Volt nut too.
Hal Murray
hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Tue Jan 12 19:27:50 UTC 2010
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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