[LEAPSECS] What's the point?

[Rob Seaman]

On Feb 11, 2011, at 8:42 AM, Tony Finch wrote:


> See for example

> http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/leapsecs/2011-January/002124.html

> where Rob Seaman wrote "Civil timekeeping is cumulative. Tiny mistakes

> posing the problem will result in large and growing permanent errors."


Great to see folks are reading my messages :-)

That message was about time-like variables.  The "quadratic" thread is about their second derivatives.  Differential equations make the world go round.

Rob