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refresh interval instrument

DefinitionThe longest renewal period that keeps a certificate within its promised error, a measured property of the system and not a convention. Chapter 13. Also refresh floor, renewal.
ExampleA certificate that stays within its error for 40 milliseconds has refresh interval 40 milliseconds.
BookData Mining as Observation, draft 0.2, commit f3914f0; entry id refresh-interval, kind instrument.
Statusno ledger row names this entry. Corrections: none recorded.
Defining equation

Book equation 13.2.

Assumptions and scope
  • The longest renewal period that keeps a certificate within its promised error, a measured property of the system and not a convention. A certificate older than the interval is stale for every consumer whose floor is shorter, and the floors are counted in slots that add over consecutive durations.
  • There is no proportionality law between the interval and the coherence time. The fit of the floor as 0.177 of the coherence time was refuted and is not to be cited, and the sealed floors were 4, 1, and 1 slots at 10, 50, and 400 hertz.
Prior artnone recorded
Evidencelean/DataMiningAsObservation/CoherenceTime.lean, lean/DataMiningAsObservation/TTI.lean
Reviewednot yet reviewed; generated 2026-09-10 from records at the commits on the provenance page.
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The longest renewal period that keeps a certificate within its error.

Equation

Book equation 13.2.

\[\begin{gathered} T_{\mathrm{coh}}=\frac{0.423}{f_D}, \\ \text{refuted fit:}\ \ \phi\approx0.177\,T_{\mathrm{coh}}\ (R^{2}=0.915), \qquad \text{sealed:}\ \ \phi\le 6\ \text{TTI at }10\ \text{Hz},\ \ 1\ \text{TTI at}\ \ge50\ \text{Hz}. \end{gathered}\]

Conditions

Conditions are curated in entries.toml rather than read from a record.

Ledger

none

First stated

Chapter 13 section 13.2 of Data Mining as Observation, with the sealed floors in observation-theory-campaigns/experiments/RADIO-FRESHNESS-TRACK.md:20-35 and the refuted fit in observation-theory-campaigns/analysis/csi/CSI-refreshfloor.json.

Measurements

none

Failures and corrections

none

Invariance envelope

none declared

Machine checked

lean/DataMiningAsObservation/CoherenceTime.lean, theorems clarke_to_three_decimals, examples, refuted_law_exceeds_sealed, at observation-data-mining f3914f0; what the check covers is stated in the book’s appendix C.

lean/DataMiningAsObservation/TTI.lean, theorems slots_of_ms, slots_add, slots_mono, slots_coherence, at observation-data-mining f3914f0; what the check covers is stated in the book’s appendix C.

Used in

Data Mining as Observation chapters 0, 13, 14.

Related

refresh floor; coherence time; certificate; false-clear rate; transmission time interval.

See also

Book equations stated beside the entry’s terms, not defining it: 0.25, 0.26.

Ledger rows that cite the entry’s records without naming it: OT-4.

Sources-table rows that share a record with the entry without naming it: chapter 13 section 13.3, chapter 13 section 13.4.

Status

Generated 2026-09-10 by encyclopedia/generate.py; book at observation-data-mining f3914f0; the commit of every record is listed in the encyclopedia’s provenance.

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