The floating point: Rounding error in timing devices

Overview of attention for article published in American Journal of Physics, August 2021

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An astonishing error was found in the stopwatches: how do the hundredths round off – does it even apply to the Olympics?

Tek Deeps, 31 Jul 2021

English physicists have found a bad error in stopwatches that distorts the results reported by the clock by as much as 0.11…

Sekuntikelloista löytyi ällistyttävä virhe: sadasosat pyöristyvät miten sattuu – koskeeko jopa olympialaisia? 30.7.2021Tiede

Tivi, 30 Jul 2021

Englantilaisfyysikot ovat havainneet sekuntikelloista pahan virheen, joka vääristää kellon ilmoittamia tuloksia jopa 0,11…

Fyysikot: sekuntikelloissa on virhe, vääristävät ajanottoa jopa 0,11 sekuntia – Olympialaisten järjestäjät eivät ole reagoineet

Talouselämä, 30 Jul 2021

Havainnot koskevat käsikäyttöisiä kelloja useilta valmistajilta, mutta virhe on ohjelmistossa, ei raudassa.

Stopwatch rounding errors, flower-like bursting bubbles, student pens children’s book Physics World

physicsworld.com, 23 Jul 2021

The Tokyo Olympics officially began today with the opening ceremony lighting up the Tokyo sky.

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