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Re:A clock that can detect tiny shifts in the flow of time i... by aqme28 on Monday November 03, 2014 @06:04PM (#8554159)
I may be wrong but this sounds like a confusion of accuracy vs. precision (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_and_precision)

edit: By which I mean that this clock could be precise to 10^-16 but be off by 10^-14 due to a mis-calibration.

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