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I have 8 cofactors possibly affecting one and only one variable. I make conditional histograms: <-pdf(file="tst3.pdf",paper="special",width=36,height=36) <-histogram(~Oversized|dat$c1*dat$c2*dat$c5*dat$c6*dat$c7*dat$c8*dat$c9*dat$c10,nint=21,layout=c(32,8),data=dat,type="count") <-dev.off() This works (compliments to R developers!) but it does generate a

One of our STEM interns recently observed that there are inexpensive clocks that sync via radio to standard time services.? This begged a question about why every computer would not have a radio module to receive time.? Our senior staff did not have a good answer or if time from such a radio module would be supported by the operating system. When I was a student, such questions would have earned

...ons only keep to within about +/- 0.5s per day, with resynchronisation happening about once a day. The GPS time system is also notoriously very precisely wrong. The time was set when the first satellite was sent up and has never been corrected since - so hasn't taken account of leap seconds or relativistic effects. All that matters for GPS is that the time on each satellite transmission is identical, and to that end you can get a precision of about 3ns (which is what you need to get metre GPS accuracy) and which you then have to correct for all the various artefacts since inception. Lower cost GPS...