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my 2 cents...

being in electronics for over 30 years, it is forever expanding in both directions, bigger mega, giga, tera, peta, etc. AND smaller nano, pico, femto, atto.

but, I agree that it is moot, as it is not the range, which is usually expressed in an exponential component of the system being used (decimal, hex., etc), and it is more a matter of significant number of digits being operated on, at that point in time. Basically the zeroes are removed and tracked separately.

Tony

On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Larry Hastings <larry@hastings.org> wrote:

On 02/26/2012 06:51 AM, Simon Cross wrote:

There are good scientific use cases for nanosecond time resolution
(e.g. radio astronomy) where one is actually measuring time down to
that level and taking into account propagation delays. I have first

hand experience \[...\]

I'm not sure whether any of this is intended to be for or against any
side in the current discussion. :D

It's probably neutral. �But I do have one question: can you foresee the scientific community moving to a finer resolution than nanoseconds in our lifetimes?


//arry/

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