On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 07:48:39PM +1100, Ross L Richardson wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 06:42:51AM +0000, Jason McIntyre wrote: > >[...] > > > > morning. > > > > i'm afraid i think this reads quite poorly - it is hard to actually > > understand what is meant. > > > > here's the thing - someone has already written the text. if we want to > > change the author's text, i think we need to demonstrate that their text > > is wrong, inaccurate, or somehow misleading. > > > > so far, i don;t believe anyone has done this. so i am reluctant to > > change the author's words. > >[...] > > Fair enough. > > The reason I couldn't make it work with "frequency" is that, as Otto > indicated, the second is not a unit of measurement for a frequency. >
the frequency is once, every "every" seconds. jmc > "tests / second" would be an appropriate unit for a frequency, but that > is _not_ what we are specifying when using "every". Rather, we are > specifying a "period" - the interval between occurrences of tests. > > > I'm not trying to complicate this, just trying to explain why "frequency" > is an incorrect term. > > Having stated my case, I'm happy to leave the wording to others (if that's > what's preferred). > > Thanks, > Ross >
