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Default Does temperature affect clocks?


"Don Pearce" wrote in message
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On Thu, 26 May 2011 14:00:46 -0400, "Arny Krueger"
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"William Sommerwerck" wrote in message
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"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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Most crystals are +/- 0.005% tolerance or better at 20 degrees C.
0.005% over 70 minutes is about a quarter of a second.

You forgot the percent sign (an easy mistake). It would actually be a
bit
over 0.002 seconds.



Hmm

calculator says:

0.005/100 * 70 * 60 = 0.21

or

70*60 = 4200

4200/100 = 42

42 * 0.005 = 0.210

where did I go wrong?


Google says

http://www.soundthoughts.co.uk/look/percent.png


I can live with that~ ;-)