<div dir="ltr">2017-10-15 22:08 GMT+02:00 Eric V. Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eric@trueblade.com" target="_blank">eric@trueblade.com</a>></span>:<span class=""></span><br><span class=""></span>
From Victor's original message, describing the current functions
using 64-bit binary floating point numbers (aka double). They lose
precision:<span class=""></span><br><span class="">
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"The problem is that Python returns time as a floatting point number<br>
which is usually a 64-bit binary floatting number (in the IEEE 754<br>
format). This type starts to loose nanoseconds after 104 days."<br>
<br></span></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Do we realize that at this level of accuracy, relativistic time dilatation due<br></div><div>to continental drift starts to matter?<br><br></div><div>Stephan<br></div><div><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><span class=""></span><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
Eric.<br>
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