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 list of times and the difference in time from the last time the button was clicked.
** Your TIMER data from 20 fast clicks **
1 99.21875 99.21875
2 99.39063 .171875
3 99.54688 .15625
4 99.67188 .125
5 99.8125 .140625
6 99.9375 .125
7 100.0781 .140625
8 100.25 .171875
9 100.3906 .140625
10 100.5469 .15625
11 100.6875 .140625
12 100.875 .1875
13 101.0313 .15625
14 101.2031 .171875
15 101.3906 .1875
16 101.5469 .15625
17 101.7188 .171875
18 101.8594 .140625
19 102.0625 .203125
20 102.2188 .15625
21 102.375 .15625
22 102.5625 .1875
23 102.7031 .140625
24 102.8594 .15625
25 103.0313 .171875
** Your average time interval for 20 time intervals **
.152502
I took the total change in time and divided it by the number of intervals. (103.0313 - 99.21875)/25 = .152502
** Your frequency distribution for the 20 time intervals (interval, number of times it was observed) **
.171875, 4
.15625, 6
.125, 2
.140625, 5
.1875, 2
.203125, 1
** Your general comment to this point **
** Why did you observe only certain time intervals? **
It can only be so accurate. The times are too close together for it to be accurate enough.
** What did you see when you looked at the differences between time successive time intervals? **
The difference in the intervals are often the same between intervals.
** Your time intervals for 7 complete breaths: **
1502.234
8.375
8.4375
7.765625
7.9375
11.73438
10.6875
10.875
9.703125
12.96875
** Your general comment to this point: **
** Why did you rarely, if ever, observe that same time interval twice? **
The times are not very close together.
** Do you think this program is accurate to .1 or .01 ... **
b.
** Copy of a few lines of your spreadsheet from the TIMER program. **
event number clock time time interval
1 1502.23 1502.23
2 1510.61 8.38
3 1519.05 8.44
4 1526.81 7.77
5 1534.75 7.94
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10 minutes.
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