Some comments on AN009

Leon

"Determinant" seems a strange choice of word, it's actually a noun.

"Propeller Assembly instructions are very deterministic in their timing". They are either deterministic or they are not.

"For this reason, it is important to use the next techniques for timing Spin code." "The following techniques" would be correct.

Jeff Martin

Thanks for your suggestions, Leon. I'll consider them and make changes.

Your comment about the "...are very deterministic..." part brings back memories as I fought with that wording myself. The way I wrote it was inspired by the fact that not all of the instructions consume a fixed amount of time; namely, the hub instructions take 8 to 23 and the timing of the first occurrence of which you can never predict with certainty without knowing things the object itself has no control over. So I chose not to say "... are deterministic..." to prevent hearing from people who feel compelled to point out the indeterministic exceptions.

Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)

I think my sixth grade teacher would have suggested "very nearly deterministic." She was a stickler about changing "more perfect" to "more nearly perfect", since "perfect" is superlative, not comparative. Man, that was a long time ago!

-Phil