Re: A83: timer

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Subject: Re: A83: timer
From: Jared173@aol.com
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 01:10:30 EST
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In a message dated 3/13/99 7:23:57 AM Central Standard Time, 
NBPhillips@aol.com writes:

> I did my science fair project on something like that.  I tested a simple 
> BASIC
>  timer against voltage, and found a big difference in accuracy from 6 volts 
> to
>  4 volts.  If there were a way for the calculator to measure the actual
>  voltage, it could make corrections.  I didn't test RAM or anything like 
that,
> 
>  however.

Yeah, battery power is directly linked to the processor speed, and therefore 
a precise devise like a timer wouldn't work on the calculator.  I once tried 
a project like that myself, specifically for testing the timeouts in a 
program, and I got those results.

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