WASHINGTON, July 21, 2021 -- As the Summer Olympics draw near, the world will shift its focus to photo finishes and races determined by mere fractions of a second. Obtaining such split-second ...
Digital stopwatches can make rounding errors of up to 0.11 seconds, which could be enough to change the winner of close races. Although the devices record time extremely accurately internally, they ...
Simulated swimming race times show a small number of times recorded on quartzite oscillator-based devices are off by margins large enough to determine winners. As the Summer Olympics draw near, the ...