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From: Edward McGuire <metaed@metaed.com>
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Subject: Re: Most direct violation of inertia in 2 secibd vvideo
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 20:02:48 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-09-25, Athel Cornish-Bowden <me@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I hope they used the median. The mean would hopelessly wrong if one of 
> the chronometers had a serious problem.

The rule followed by NTP is Byzantine consensus. Four clocks protect you from
one going wrong. Seven clocks protect you from two going wrong.