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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 **
I see a chart with two sets of numbers, i guess the first column is the time since i opened the program, and the second value is the time interval between clicks.
** Your TIMER data from 20 fast clicks **
1 268.5078 268.5078
2 268.6953 .1875
3 268.8672 .171875
4 269.0547 .1875
5 269.2422 .1875
6 269.4453 .203125
7 269.6016 .15625
8 269.7852 .1835938
9 269.9727 .1875
10 270.1602 .1875
11 270.3477 .1875
12 270.5195 .171875
13 270.7227 .203125
14 270.8945 .171875
15 271.0977 .203125
16 271.25 .1523438
17 271.4844 .234375
18 271.6563 .171875
19 271.8438 .1875
20 272.0625 .21875
21 272.2344 .171875
22 272.4375 .203125
23 272.6406 .203125
24 272.8398 .1992188
25 273.0273 .1875
26 273.2148 .1875
27 273.4023 .1875
28 273.5742 .171875
29 273.7617 .1875
30 273.9492 .1875
31 274.1211 .171875
32 274.3047 .1835938
** Your average time interval for 20 time intervals **
.1812
I subtracted the first number from the last number and divided by the number of values to get the average.
** Your frequency distribution for the 20 time intervals (interval, number of times it was observed) **
.15625, 1
.171875, 1
.1835938, 1
.1875, 5
.203125, 1
** Your general comment to this point **
** Why did you observe only certain time intervals? **
I think the computer program rounded up when it was close to .1875 because it is a nice even number, 3/16ths.
** What did you see when you looked at the differences between time successive time intervals? **
the numbers are both positive and negative, so it is showing whether the value is more or less than the last recorded interval.
** Your time intervals for 7 complete breaths: **
6.578125
5.238281
6.765625
5.644531
6.65625
6.277344
5.992188
5.769531
6.738281
** Your general comment to this point: **
** Why did you rarely, if ever, observe that same time interval twice? **
Because you get in a rhythm clicking on fast clicks.
** Do you think this program is accurate to .1 or .01 ... **
B. The TIMER program is capable of determining the time between two events accurately to within about .01 second.
** Copy of a few lines of your spreadsheet from the TIMER program. **
5 1065.098 5.644531
6 1071.754 6.65625
7 1078.031 6.277344
8 1084.023 5.992188
9 1089.793 5.769531
10 1096.531 6.738281
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