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On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 06:36:22PM -0400, Horst von Brand wrote: > Rolf Fokkens <fokkensr@fokkensr.vertis.nl> said: > > On Tuesday 10 September 2002 08:09, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > > Actually, the clock true frequency is 1193181.8 Hz, although most > > > manuals say 1.19318 MHz, which, because truncating more digits, also > > > correct. But 1193180 Hz isn't. If you're trying to count the time > > > correctly, you should better use 1193182 Hz if staying in integers. > > > > I copied the clock frequency from the kernel source, timex.h defines: > > > > #define CLOCK_TICK_RATE 1193180 > > > > If what you're saying is correct, timex.h uses the wrong value as wel I guess. > > I'd be _really_ surprised if that number is within 1% (+-11932 or so) > correct, an error in the last digit (0.0001%) is surely lost. Well, the xtal is usually to be specified with a +-50ppm error, though many have a larger error, but not too much larger - less than 200ppm, so you can stay surprised, it's within +-0.02% worst case. 2 at the last place is about 1.5ppm. This is about five seconds a month. -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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