From: Herbert Prinz (no email)
Date: Wed Jul 20 2005 - 13:03:54 EDT
Frank Reed wrote (in reply to a suggestion by Alexandre Eremenko)
>"I suppose a sandglass has at least the same precision
>as a crude pendulum discussed above."
>
>Much easier to make a pendulum from scratch!
>
>
A sandglass may have the same precision, but it does not have the same
resolution as a pendulum. It's no substitute.
Herbert Prinz
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