Your 'timer program' report has been received. Scroll down through the document to see any comments I might have inserted, and my final comment at the end.
** Your General Comment **
** Describe what you see on your first 10 clicks **
It tells you how long it's been running and the length of time in between clicks
** Your TIMER data from 20 fast clicks **
1 130.7148 130.7148
2 131.0078 .2929688
3 131.3359 .328125
4 131.4805 .1445313
5 131.6211 .140625
6 131.7773 .15625
7 131.9336 .15625
8 132.0742 .140625
9 132.2305 .15625
10 132.3555 .125
11 132.4922 .1367188
12 132.6328 .140625
13 132.7773 .1445313
14 132.9023 .125
15 133.0391 .1367188
16 133.1641 .125
17 133.7305 .5664063
18 133.8359 .1054688
19 133.9609 .125
20 134.0859 .125
21 134.2305 .1445313
** Your average time interval for 20 time intervals **
.167
I subtracted the start time from the end time and divided by 21
** Your frequency distribution for the 20 time intervals (interval, number of times it was observed) **
.1054688, 1
.125, 5
.1367188, 2
.140625, 3
.1445313, 3
.15625, 3
.2929588, 1
.328125, 1
.5664063, 1
130.7148, 1
** Your general comment to this point **
** Why did you observe only certain time intervals? **
It's not flawed, just not programmed to round off when necessary. It's useful, just not perfect
** What did you see when you looked at the differences between time successive time intervals? **
it takes the last two time intervals and tells the difference between the two. This tells you whether the clicking is speeding up or slowing down, or staying at a constant rate.
** Your time intervals for 7 complete breaths: **
4.1875
4.09375
3.90625
4.234375
3.984375
5.371094
3.90625
3.5625
4
4.296875
** Your general comment to this point: **
** Why did you rarely, if ever, observe that same time interval twice? **
because there is too much variation and possiblity in time intervals between breaths, as compared to just clicking as fast as you can.
** Do you think this program is accurate to .1 or .01 ... **
c, because it looks like after that place, the numbers coincide with more frequent fractions like .375 and .875
** Copy of a few lines of your spreadsheet from the TIMER program. **
1 4.34375 4.34375
2 7.609375 3.265625
3 10.82813 3.21875
4 13.48438 2.65625
5 16.04688 2.5625
6 18.60938 2.5625
7 21.23438 2.625
8 23.57422 2.339844
9 26.16797 2.59375
10 28.44922 2.28125
11 30.93359 2.484375
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about 35 minutes
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