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Like my old model, the new one has a stopwatch that measures hundredths of a second.
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Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2024
The most precise and accurate atomic clock in the world, the ultracold strontium clock at JILA in Boulder, is like a stopwatch that can count the billionths of a nanosecond, or 18 digits past the decimal point.
—Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 11 Sep. 2024
The stopwatch doesn't have a bias to who's driving.
—James Morris, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2024
There’s a stopwatch mechanic that might be one of the best uses of time dilation ever seen in gaming, where Astro can slow down time at the push of a button to turn everything from spinning knives to floating leaves into platforms with a Matrix-style take on platforming.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2024
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Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2024
The most precise and accurate atomic clock in the world, the ultracold strontium clock at JILA in Boulder, is like a stopwatch that can count the billionths of a nanosecond, or 18 digits past the decimal point.
—Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 11 Sep. 2024
The stopwatch doesn't have a bias to who's driving.
—James Morris, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2024
There’s a stopwatch mechanic that might be one of the best uses of time dilation ever seen in gaming, where Astro can slow down time at the push of a button to turn everything from spinning knives to floating leaves into platforms with a Matrix-style take on platforming.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2024
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“Stopwatch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stopwatch. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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