Smaller than milliseconds?

Scott Rossi scott at tactilemedia.com
Thu Jul 10 18:12:00 EDT 2003


Recently, "Dar Scott"  wrote:

> On my OS X, I get this:
> 
> the long seconds: 1057873624.51924 delta: 0.000009
> the ticks: 63472417471 delta: 0
> the milliseconds: 1057873624527 delta: 0
> the long ticks: 63472417471.80954 delta: 0.000778
> the long milliseconds: 1057873624533.140991 delta: 0.014038
> 
> I forgot how many digits we get with double floating point.  Between 14
> and 15?  This might limit how small of a time we can measure.
> 
> What do you folks get?

A headache, from looking at all those digits....

:-)

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design
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