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  2. Calculagraph - Wikipedia

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    He obtained many patents; the first one specifically using the name Calculagraph was No. 583320, issued May 25, 1897. [3] The characteristic aspect of the machine's design is its automatic performance of elapsed-time calculations, as calculating the difference between two times manually is a tedious and error-prone process, and the machines ...

  3. Mental chronometry - Wikipedia

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    In simple RT tasks, constant foreperiods of about 300 ms over a series of trials tends to produce the fastest responses for a given individual, and responses lengthen as the foreperiod becomes longer, an effect that has been demonstrated up to foreperiods of many hundreds of seconds. [25]

  4. Discrete time and continuous time - Wikipedia

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    In this framework, each variable of interest is measured once at each time period. The number of measurements between any two time periods is finite. Measurements are typically made at sequential integer values of the variable "time". A discrete signal or discrete-time signal is a time series consisting of a sequence of quantities.

  5. Time - Wikipedia

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    Time is the continuous progression of existence that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, and into the future. [1] [2] [3] It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to compare the duration of events (or the intervals between them), and to quantify rates of change of quantities in material reality or in the ...

  6. Unit of time - Wikipedia

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    Used to measure the time between alternating power cycles. Also a casual term for a short period of time. centisecond: 10 −2 s: One hundredth of a second. decisecond: 10 −1 s: One tenth of a second. second: 1 s: SI base unit for time. decasecond: 10 s: Ten seconds (one sixth of a minute) minute: 60 s: hectosecond: 100 s: milliday: 1/1000 d ...

  7. Experimental testing of time dilation - Wikipedia

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    The emergence of the muons is caused by the collision of cosmic rays with the upper atmosphere, after which the muons reach Earth. The probability that muons can reach the Earth depends on their half-life, which itself is modified by the relativistic corrections of two quantities: a) the mean lifetime of muons and b) the length between the upper and lower atmosphere (at Earth's surface).

  8. Proper time - Wikipedia

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    The proper time interval for A between the two events is then = =. So being "at rest" in a special relativity coordinate system means that proper time and coordinate time are the same. Let there now be another observer B who travels in the x direction from (0,0,0,0) for 5 years of A -coordinate time at 0.866 c to (5 years, 4.33 light-years, 0, 0).

  9. Running out the clock - Wikipedia

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    With two minutes to go (120 seconds), the offense can take three "knees", one each on 1st, 2nd, and 3rd down (using all 40 seconds from the play clock on each), and allow the game clock to expire before having to run a play for fourth down. A similar situation can be had by also achieving a first down inside the two-minute warning.