[time-nuts] Divide by five

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <54614A56.4010904 at rubidium.dyndns.org>, Magnus Danielson writes:

>> There used to be an academic paper on timing.com's home-page about
>> their clock-ensemble algorithm called something like "Advances in
>> Time-Scale Algorithms".
>
>PTTI 24, Sam Steins work:
>http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/ptti/1992papers/Vol%2024_28.pdf

There you go...

>I've long toyed with the idea of building ensemble clock, but never got 
>around to it.

I did some experiments based on that timing.com paper, but didn't
really have enough clocks for it to be worthwhile, and the cooling
in my lap couldn't cope with me turning so much kit on at the same
time during summer.

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