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Re:All clocks are 30 seconds late by jy14898 on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @09:13AM (#42622480)
By this logic, a broken 24 hour clock stuck at mid day has 0 error.
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Re:All clocks are 30 seconds late by Straw on Saturday January 11, 2025 @12:52PM (#42667570)
The average of its errors is 0- ie it is not biased. Ofc, the average absolute error, which in English one could very reasonably refer to as "average error" is much greater than 0.
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