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 are three columns the first is the number of the click, the second is how long the program has been running up to when you clicked. The last is the interval between the previous and current click.
Your TIMER data from 20 fast clicks
2 116.0313 .140625
3 116.1719 .140625
4 116.3125 .140625
5 116.4375 .125
6 116.5781 .140625
7 116.7031 .125
8 116.8438 .140625
9 117 .15625
10 117.1406 .140625
11 117.2813 .140625
12 117.4063 .125
13 117.5781 .171875
14 117.7188 .140625
15 117.8438 .125
16 118 .15625
17 118.1406 .140625
18 118.2813 .140625
19 118.4219 .140625
20 118.5781 .15625
21 118.7188 .140625
Your average time interval for 20 time intervals
0.134375
(118.7188 - 116.0313)/20
Your frequency distribution for the 20 time intervals (interval, number of times it was observed)
.125, 4
.140625, 11
.15625, 3
.171875, 1
Your general comment to this point
Why did you observe only certain time intervals?
The timer is not count in units of .00000000000001 seconds. It counts with some other unit and simply rounds to the closest of those units. So the timer is not flawed. It is just not counting by 1's and that doesnt mean it is useless it just means that we cannot really believe that it is accurate to the last figure shown.
What did you see when you looked at the differences between time successive time intervals?
It tells me that it is using .015625 to count.
Your time intervals for 7 complete breaths:
5.125
5.171875
5.171875
5.109375
5.390625
5.21875
5.09375
Your general comment to this point:
Why did you rarely, if ever, observe that same time interval twice?
We expect this becuase we expect the length of each breathe to vary more then our rapid clicking. Also we get away from the smaller figures and smaller figures are naturally harder to observe and record and so forth.
Do you think this program is accurate to .1 or .01 ...
Well the timer counts using basically .016 (rounded) so I would say its really only accurate to .1 seconds.
Copy of a few lines of your spreadsheet from the TIMER program.
Inhalation times
event number,clock time,time interval
1 , 904.1563 , 904.1563
2 , 909.2813 , 5.125
3 , 914.4531 , 5.171875
4 , 919.625 , 5.171875
5 , 924.7344 , 5.109375
6 , 930.125 , 5.390625
7 , 935.3438 , 5.21875
8 , 940.4375 , 5.09375
eh, 15-20 mins?
Pretty quick on the TIMER.
You're in good shape here..
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 are three columns the first is the number of the click, the second is how long the program has been running up to when you clicked. The last is the interval between the previous and current click.
Your TIMER data from 20 fast clicks
2 116.0313 .140625
3 116.1719 .140625
4 116.3125 .140625
5 116.4375 .125
6 116.5781 .140625
7 116.7031 .125
8 116.8438 .140625
9 117 .15625
10 117.1406 .140625
11 117.2813 .140625
12 117.4063 .125
13 117.5781 .171875
14 117.7188 .140625
15 117.8438 .125
16 118 .15625
17 118.1406 .140625
18 118.2813 .140625
19 118.4219 .140625
20 118.5781 .15625
21 118.7188 .140625
Your average time interval for 20 time intervals
0.134375
(118.7188 - 116.0313)/20
Your frequency distribution for the 20 time intervals (interval, number of times it was observed)
.125, 4
.140625, 11
.15625, 3
.171875, 1
Your general comment to this point
Why did you observe only certain time intervals?
The timer is not count in units of .00000000000001 seconds. It counts with some other unit and simply rounds to the closest of those units. So the timer is not flawed. It is just not counting by 1's and that doesnt mean it is useless it just means that we cannot really believe that it is accurate to the last figure shown.
What did you see when you looked at the differences between time successive time intervals?
It tells me that it is using .015625 to count.
Your time intervals for 7 complete breaths:
5.125
5.171875
5.171875
5.109375
5.390625
5.21875
5.09375
Your general comment to this point:
Why did you rarely, if ever, observe that same time interval twice?
We expect this becuase we expect the length of each breathe to vary more then our rapid clicking. Also we get away from the smaller figures and smaller figures are naturally harder to observe and record and so forth.
Do you think this program is accurate to .1 or .01 ...
Well the timer counts using basically .016 (rounded) so I would say its really only accurate to .1 seconds.
Copy of a few lines of your spreadsheet from the TIMER program.
Inhalation times
event number,clock time,time interval
1 , 904.1563 , 904.1563
2 , 909.2813 , 5.125
3 , 914.4531 , 5.171875
4 , 919.625 , 5.171875
5 , 924.7344 , 5.109375
6 , 930.125 , 5.390625
7 , 935.3438 , 5.21875
8 , 940.4375 , 5.09375
eh, 15-20 mins?
Pretty quick on the TIMER.
You're in good shape here..
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 are three columns the first is the number of the click, the second is how long the program has been running up to when you clicked. The last is the interval between the previous and current click.
Your TIMER data from 20 fast clicks
2 116.0313 .140625
3 116.1719 .140625
4 116.3125 .140625
5 116.4375 .125
6 116.5781 .140625
7 116.7031 .125
8 116.8438 .140625
9 117 .15625
10 117.1406 .140625
11 117.2813 .140625
12 117.4063 .125
13 117.5781 .171875
14 117.7188 .140625
15 117.8438 .125
16 118 .15625
17 118.1406 .140625
18 118.2813 .140625
19 118.4219 .140625
20 118.5781 .15625
21 118.7188 .140625
Your average time interval for 20 time intervals
0.134375
(118.7188 - 116.0313)/20
Your frequency distribution for the 20 time intervals (interval, number of times it was observed)
.125, 4
.140625, 11
.15625, 3
.171875, 1
Your general comment to this point
Why did you observe only certain time intervals?
The timer is not count in units of .00000000000001 seconds. It counts with some other unit and simply rounds to the closest of those units. So the timer is not flawed. It is just not counting by 1's and that doesnt mean it is useless it just means that we cannot really believe that it is accurate to the last figure shown.
What did you see when you looked at the differences between time successive time intervals?
It tells me that it is using .015625 to count.
Your time intervals for 7 complete breaths:
5.125
5.171875
5.171875
5.109375
5.390625
5.21875
5.09375
Your general comment to this point:
Why did you rarely, if ever, observe that same time interval twice?
We expect this becuase we expect the length of each breathe to vary more then our rapid clicking. Also we get away from the smaller figures and smaller figures are naturally harder to observe and record and so forth.
Do you think this program is accurate to .1 or .01 ...
Well the timer counts using basically .016 (rounded) so I would say its really only accurate to .1 seconds.
Copy of a few lines of your spreadsheet from the TIMER program.
Inhalation times
event number,clock time,time interval
1 , 904.1563 , 904.1563
2 , 909.2813 , 5.125
3 , 914.4531 , 5.171875
4 , 919.625 , 5.171875
5 , 924.7344 , 5.109375
6 , 930.125 , 5.390625
7 , 935.3438 , 5.21875
8 , 940.4375 , 5.09375
eh, 15-20 mins?
Pretty quick on the TIMER.
You're in good shape here..