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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 **
the numbered intervals and times in order, i noticed the time starts when the program is opened and not when the button is first clicked. I'm not sure if this is correct but that seems to be the case.
It does that, so the first interval usually has to be disregarded (as you have done).
** Your TIMER data from 20 fast clicks **
1 292.9883 292.9883
2 293.082 .09375
3 293.1914 .109375
4 293.2852 .09375
5 293.3789 .09375
6 293.457 .078125
7 293.5508 .09375
8 293.6602 .109375
9 293.7539 .09375
10 293.8633 .109375
11 293.957 .09375
12 294.0508 .09375
13 294.1602 .109375
14 294.2383 .078125
15 294.3477 .109375
16 294.4414 .09375
17 294.5664 .125
18 294.6563 8.984375E-02
19 294.7539 9.765625E-02
20 294.8594 .1054688
** Your average time interval for 20 time intervals **
.09356
I subtracted the first number in the second column from the last number in the second column to find the derivative, then divided by 20.
** Your frequency distribution for the 20 time intervals (interval, number of times it was observed) **
.078125, 2
.08984375, 1
.09375, 8
.09765625, 1
.1054688, 1
.109375, 5
.125, 1
** Your general comment to this point **
** Why did you observe only certain time intervals? **
no, it must round up or down because all of my intervals ended in a 5 as well.
** What did you see when you looked at the differences between time successive time intervals? **
tells us how far off each time interval is from the previous one
** Your time intervals for 7 complete breaths: **
5.105469
5.65625
4.839844
5.40625
4.824219
5
5.339844
5.5
5.558594
5.390625
** Your general comment to this point: **
I just relaxed and breathed normally instead of taking deep breaths.
** Why did you rarely, if ever, observe that same time interval twice? **
the greater the interval, the more room for error or difference in each interval.
** Do you think this program is accurate to .1 or .01 ... **
D. .0001 seconds, based on the difference from one time interval to the next
** Copy of a few lines of your spreadsheet from the TIMER program. **
10 breaths
event number clock time time interval
1 1089.184 1089.184
2 1094.289 5.105469
3 1099.945 5.65625
4 1104.785 4.839844
5 1110.191 5.40625
6 1115.016 4.824219
7 1120.016 5
8 1125.355 5.339844
9 1130.855 5.5
10 1136.414 5.558594
11 1141.805 5.390625
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