Re: Python
"Carlos E.R." <[email protected]> Thu, 5 Mar 2026 20:02:57 +0100
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On 2026-03-05 18:42, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On 2026-03-05, Peter Flass <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 3/4/26 15:35, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 4 Mar 2026 14:09:58 -0700, Peter Flass wrote: >>> >>>> On 3/4/26 13:29, Carlos E.R. wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On 2026-03-04 21:01, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote: >>>>> . >>>>>> A man with one clock knows what time it is. A man with two is >>>>>> never quite sure... >>>>> >>>>> Experimental science would not agree. >>>> >>>> You would need at least three. >>> >>> Three would be better than two, but two is already enough to come up >>> with an error estimate on the measurement. >> >> No, because if two don't agree, one could be just plain wrong. The Space >> Shuttle system had three processors run the same computation as a check. > > And, IIRC, the third one was built and programmed by a different outfit. Different software? That one I did not know. > -- Cheers, Carlos. ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺; -- https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/python-list.python.org