At 04:58 PM 9/29/99 -0400, you wrote:
>This is exactly why I stated that precision is more important than
>accuracy. As long as a run of xx.yyy seconds is exactly the same
>duration for all competitors then the timer can do the job it needs to
>do. I still think millisecond precision is necessary because there have
>been numerous times where centisecond precision was not sufficient to
>properly rank the finishers.
As P5 at the ProFinale proved very well. Imagine two drivers (myself and
Kevin Bailey) tied to the thousandth of a second and a third driver
(Matthew Braun) .002 seconds behind us!
- Alan Dahl
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