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WHAT'S YOUR ENGINEERING QUOTIENT?

Problem 1—If you have 24 people in a room, what are the chances that any two of them have the same birthday?

The C/A chip rate is 1.023 MHz, and the P chip rate is 10ý higher, at 10.23 MHz.

However, this does not mean that the P signal is ten times as accurate as the C/A signal ý the accuracy is controlled more by the short-term accuracy of the receiver's timing reference. A high-quality receiver can give very precise results using only the C/A signal.

Contributor: Dave Tweed

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