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A millisecond isn't long enough for the blink of an eye, but a few milliseconds may determine the winner of a swim race or a hundred-yard dash. With the ever-increasing speed of modern technology, even a millisecond has started to seem a little sluggish; computer operations are now measured in nanoseconds—that is, billionths of a second.
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Rachel Metz, Fortune, 13 May 2024
All this in the blink of an eye—which, incidentally, also takes about 150 milliseconds.
—Jeremy White, WIRED, 9 May 2024
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“Millisecond.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/millisecond. Accessed 29 May. 2024.
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