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by tvb
872 days ago
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Many pendulum clocks are capable of well under 1 ppm accuracy, which is better than many quartz oscillators. Here is a tour of clock precision by orders of magnitude: http://leapsecond.com/ten/ Here is a world record setting pendulum clock from a few years ago: http://leapsecond.com/pend/clockb/ Precision pendulum clocks are a very deep rabbit hole. |
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> The Shortt was the first clock to be a more accurate timekeeper than the Earth itself; it was used in 1926 to detect tiny seasonal changes in the Earth's rotation rate. Shortt clocks achieved accuracy of around a second per year
If my math is right, thats about 30ppb