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Re: [gpsd-dev] Print offset in ntpshmmon?
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Beat Bolli |
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Re: [gpsd-dev] Print offset in ntpshmmon? |
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Fri, 01 May 2015 21:00:08 +0200 |
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On 01.05.15 20:53, Gary E. Miller wrote:
> Yo Beat!
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> On Fri, 01 May 2015 20:46:31 +0200
> Beat Bolli <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> On 30.04.15 20:08, Gary E. Miller wrote:
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>>> How long is a python long? 32 bit longs are not big enough. 64 bit
>>> longs will not be big enough in 2038. Google '2038 NTP'.
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>> Python longs have unlimited (well, technically limited by available
>> RAM) size. No problem to calculate the 1000!.
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> Got a canonical reference for that?
https://docs.python.org/2/reference/lexical_analysis.html#integer-and-long-integer-literals
> How long is a float?
From the very following section on the page above:
> The allowed range of floating point literals is implementation-
> dependent.
:-( I assume this means that CPython floats use the C compiler's double.
How about using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_double ?
Beat
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