[ntp:questions] Leap second to be introduced in June
William Unruh
unruh at invalid.ca
Mon Jan 26 16:46:08 UTC 2015
On 2015-01-26, Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen at tmsw.no> wrote:
>
> One of the good points about Google's smear is the fact that they use a
> half cosine to distribute the offset, which means that they have a time
> function which is both continuous and monotonic, as well as having an
> infinite number of defined derivatives, i.e. it is maximally smooth.
Nope. The function 1 x<0; -1, x>pi, cos(x) otherwise is continuous and
its first derivative is continuous, but its second derivative is not,
and its third does not exist at x=0 and pi. It is NOT maximally smooth.
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