[ntp:questions] Re: Tinker and tos configuration commands....

David L. Mills mills at udel.edu
Tue Feb 8 04:24:05 UTC 2005


Brad,

One thing I try never to do is make a floating point variable into a 
state variable, with the exception of zero. In other words, 500 - 1 LSB 
is the same as 500 is the same sas 500 + 1 LSB. If you don't take that 
care, rounding can cause real trouble.

Dave

Brad Knowles wrote:

> At 8:56 PM +0000 2005-02-07, brad at shub-internet.org wrote:
> 
>>  I know we're talking about floating point math, in which nothing is ever
>>  exact.  However, what I'm saying here is that I think we want to give
>>  ourselves the best possible chance to be able to detect when we are
>>  absolutely within the limits, and then take other action (as 
>> appropriate)
>>  when we reach or exceed the limits.
> 
> 
>     In this particular case, I believe that changing these comparisons 
> to strict less-than and greater-than will allow us to detect a drift 
> file that has been pegged at 500, and to do the appropriate thing with 
> that -- toss it and recalculate.
> 



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