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Subject: Re: interesting idea

Author: Ralf Elvsén

Date: 06:25:57 09/07/02

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On September 06, 2002 at 11:53:13, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>I have posted the raw data logs, the "cooked data" that I extracted from the
>logs, and the speedup tables (those for Martin last nite).  It might be
>interesting to take the cb.c program I also posted and change the speedup
>format to show 3 decimel places (I used 2 as Martin had suggested that would
>be better.)
>
>It would be interesting to run the program with 1, 2 and 3 decimel place
>accuracy, and let everyone look at the three tables and decide which one
>_really_ provides the most useful information.  I'll bet everyone likes
>.1 better than .11 because is .01 really significant?  Or is it just random
>noise?
>
>I will let someone else run this as I have supplied the raw data and program
>on my ftp machine.  that way I can't be accused of biasing the results in any
>way.  :)

Keep as many digits as your machine allows you until the bitter end.
Then you make an estimation of the uncertainty, and present a properly
rounded value together with the uncertainty. Rounding before this
stage is a no-no (although I'm not sure that was what you intended
to do).

Ralf



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