How long does a "jiffy" last?

zbeckabee

Depends on who is saying it. I have a sister who runs in three speeds...slow, slower and stop. Her "in a jiffies" last approximately 10 years. However, to a normal person a "jiffy" is a "moment" or is the time it takes light to traverse the distance of 1 centimeter (33.3 pico seconds = 0.000,000,000,033,300 seconds). 1 light - cm is pretty quick! Mar 27 06, 11:52 AM

Brainyblonde

The duration of one tick of the computer's system clock. Often one AC cycle time (1/60 second in the US and Canada, 1/50 most other places), but more recently 1/100 sec has become common. Confusingly, the term is sometimes also used for a 1-millisecond wall time interval. Even more confusingly, physicists semi-jokingly use "jiffy" to mean the time required for light to travel one foot in a vacuum, which turns out to be close to one *nanosecond*. a very short time (as the time it takes the eye blink or the heart to beat); "if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash" http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=jiffy Mar 27 06, 12:31 PM

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