Re: NIST unit rules and conventions

2018-09-21 Thread MLewis via devel
On 21/09/2018 1:58 PM, Sanjeev Gupta via devel wrote: Yes, having a sentence ... The change in the value of the residual, after 2 hours or 35 iterations, should not exceed 23 ppm is a requirement of various standards, among which are NIST 543:62 and FIPS 180 published in 2017. ... is slig

Re: NIST unit rules and conventions

2018-09-21 Thread Paul Theodoropoulos via devel
On 9/21/2018 10:58 AM, Sanjeev Gupta wrote: Yes, having a sentence ... The change in the value of the residual, after 2 hours or 35 iterations, should not exceed 23 ppm is a requirement of various standards, among which are NIST 543:62 and FIPS 180 published in 2017. ... is slightly confusin

Re: NIST unit rules and conventions

2018-09-21 Thread Sanjeev Gupta via devel
On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 12:54 AM Paul Theodoropoulos wrote: > On 9/21/2018 1:07 AM, Sanjeev Gupta wrote: > > My concern is that the space between "25" and "kg" should be > non-breaking. Else, readability suffers badly. How do you do this in > asciidoc? > > > By non-breakingI assume you mean

Re: NIST unit rules and conventions

2018-09-21 Thread Paul Theodoropoulos via devel
On 9/21/2018 1:07 AM, Sanjeev Gupta wrote: Paul, Personally, I find 25kg, 50ppm, 3m, more readable; but that is neither here nor there. I also prefer 'conjoined' value plus unit. It's a choice, not a law, but I'm willing to conform to an objective resource in high standing (NIST) if that's w

Re: NIST unit rules and conventions

2018-09-21 Thread James Browning via devel
On Fri, Sep 21, 2018, 1:07 AM Sanjeev Gupta via devel wrote: > Paul, > > Personally, I find 25kg, 50ppm, 3m, more readable; but that is neither > here nor there. > > My concern is that the space between "25" and "kg" should be > non-breaking. Else, readability suffers badly. How do you do this

Re: ntpq quirks

2018-09-21 Thread Hal Murray via devel
> # Requests are automatically retried once, so total timeout with no > # response is a bit over 2 * DEFTIMEOUT, or 10 seconds. Thanks. That sounds reasonable, but I can't translate that into what I'm seeing. Did you check the code? Does it bail on the second timeout? Is there an extra re

Re: NIST unit rules and conventions

2018-09-21 Thread Sanjeev Gupta via devel
Paul, Personally, I find 25kg, 50ppm, 3m, more readable; but that is neither here nor there. My concern is that the space between "25" and "kg" should be non-breaking. Else, readability suffers badly. How do you do this in asciidoc? -- Sanjeev Gupta +65 98551208 http://www.linkedin.com/in/

Re: ntpq quirks

2018-09-21 Thread Eric S. Raymond via devel
Hal Murray via devel : > > Anybody familiar with the retransmission code? I think I'm the only person who has touched it. > It seems to hang occasionally. A wild guess, there is some backoff code in > there that increases the retransmission timer. That's good. I'm guessing > that my problem