the screens of stopwatches,they once again saw a skewed num
ber.
Faux says that the obvious solution is for stopwatches to
have large data tables for transforming the numbers of oscilla-
tions into the time in seconds,rather than using an algorithm.
The researchers now hope to investigate whether the errors are
found at large sporting events.
New Scientist asked the International Olympic Committee if
timing at the Olympic Games could be affected by this phenome
non.The IOC passed the request for comment to Omega,the of-
ficial timekeeper of the Games,which didn't respond.