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I'm watching the History Channel program Modern Marvels "Measure It" and learned there is a unit of measurement called the Jiffy. :rofl:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiffy_%28time%29" [Broken]
In electronics, a jiffy is the time between alternating current power cycles, 1/60 or 1/50 of a second...
In computing, a jiffy is the duration of one tick of the system timer interrupt.
In astrophysics and quantum physics a jiffy is, as defined by Edward R. Harrison,[5] the time it takes for light to travel one fermi, which is the size of a nucleon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiffy_%28time%29" [Broken]
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