Rob Seaman scripsit:
> Interesting question. Perhaps it is the distinction between
> addressability and physical pixels that one encounters on image
> displays and hardcopy devices? (Still have to posit which is which
> in that case :-)
Thanks to those who responded either publicly or privately. In summary,
"infinite are the arguments of mages". Some take resolution to be a
near-synonym for precision, some take it to be a synonym for granularity.
The more definitive the source, the vaguer the definitions.
I should perhaps explain that I was interested in an internal
representation for durations, which I am now representing as a triple of
months, minutes, and seconds (the number of minutes in a month is not
predictable, nor the number of seconds in a minute given leap seconds,
but all other relationships are predictable: 10080 minutes/week, 12
months/year, 100 years/century, etc.) To this I would add a fourth
nonnegative integer representing "clock resolution units" and wanted to
make sure I had the terminology correct.
Ah well.
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John Cowan cowan_at_ccil.org http://ccil.org/~cowan
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side
with the giants on whose shoulders we stand.
--Gerald Holton
Received on Thu Jun 01 2006 - 10:52:02 PDT