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 **
There's a list of numbers, mostly in the 50's.
** Your TIMER data from 20 fast clicks **
1 141.3984 141.3984
2 141.5547 .15625
3 141.7031 .1484375
4 141.8672 .1640625
5 142.0234 .15625
6 142.1875 .1640625
7 142.375 .1875
8 142.5469 .171875
9 142.7109 .1640625
10 142.8984 .1875
11 143.0625 .1640625
12 143.2266 .1640625
13 143.4219 .1953125
14 143.6094 .1875
15 143.8125 .203125
16 144.0156 .203125
17 144.2188 .203125
18 144.3828 .1640625
19 144.5469 .1640625
20 144.7188 .171875
21 144.8594 .140625
** Your average time interval for 20 time intervals **
.1652344
** Your frequency distribution for the 20 time intervals (interval, number of times it was observed) **
.148438, 2
.15625, 2
.164063, 7
.171875, 2
.1875, 3
.195313, 1
.203125, 4
** Your general comment to this point **
** Why did you observe only certain time intervals? **
I think that it means that is as fast as the timer can go?
** What did you see when you looked at the differences between time successive time intervals? **
It can only go in intervals of .015625.
** Your time intervals for 7 complete breaths: **
3.414063
2.867188
3.734375
3.414063
3.078125
2.867188
2.84375
3.226563
1.734375
1.4375
** Your general comment to this point: **
** Why did you rarely, if ever, observe that same time interval twice? **
Because we were going as fast as we could the first time and the second time we were taking breaks which is hard to place even amount of time in between.
** Do you think this program is accurate to .1 or .01 ... **
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** Copy of a few lines of your spreadsheet from the TIMER program. **
-68662.18 -68662.18
-68658.77 3.414063
-68655.9 2.867188
-68652.16 3.734375
-68648.75 3.414063
-68645.67 3.078125
-68642.8 2.867188
-68639.96 2.84375
-68636.73 3.226563
-68635 1.734375
-68633.56 1.4375
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A very long time. I had to stop and come back, but about an hour in all.
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Good work. Your data are good and your analysis and explanations are correct and well expressed.