generate timestamp in millisecond interval for interpolation
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how to generate timestamp 0.250 seconds (4Hz) sampling interval? I tried [firstdatenum:0.125/86400:enddatenum]', but it gave me four different intervals (using diff) in the order 10^-6 (it is very small indeed, but annoying). I need the timestamp to interpolate it with other timeframe with 8Hz sampling interval.
If anyone can help. Thanks.
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Walter Roberson
2013-2-19
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You are not going to be able to get exactly 0.25 second intervals in time stamps, as 86400 is not an exact divisor of 1.
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Erni
2013-2-19
Jan
2013-2-19
@Erni: Yes, the double values replied by datenum cannot contain the milliseconds exactly due to the limited precision. The absolute value of the serial datenumbers deviate by -6.605e-011 and 5.036e-011 in my tests. This meets the possible resolution for doubles, when you consider the 6 leading digits.
The datevec format offers a higher resolution.
Walter Roberson
2013-2-19
If the world happened to use a time scheme in which days were a power-of-two units long, and you were working with "mibiseconds" (1/1024 of the modified seconds), then you would be able to store them exactly.
The difficulty is not with "fractions of a second", the difficulty is that the fractions (of a day) do not have exact finite binary representations, just the same way that 1/3 does not have an exact finite decimal representation.
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