What you can do is to limit their counts to a value suitable.
Which is how you adjust the rate.
Hmm, that is not the rate of the atomic clock, Sir. Those are simply a
number of counts. The rate of the clock remains unaffected. This is the
reason why you take less or more counts from it.
If you were changing the rate of the clock, would be no reason to count
less or more counts. You confuse Mr Kenseto, including yourself.
These morons don't know that atomic clocks use the atomic reconance frequence
to synch a secondary quartz(?) clock. The actually resonance frequency cannot
be counted and has to be divided down. It is a relatively simple matter to
add or drop and occasional 'tick' on the secondary clock.
GPS clocks are continously software corrected in this way to keep them in
absolute synch with both each other and the ground clocks. The initial offeset
is totally unnecessary, although it is known that the clocks do physically
change very slightly when sent into free fall conditions.
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Henry Wilson DSc.