What an instrument costs

Worked examples, recomputed

Every number the mechanisms quote for this relationship is recomputed from it, so none of them disagrees with it.

• a 50 ns probe on 10 million calls/s → 0.5 s of CPU every second

Where it appears

Each mechanism states it in its own names. The general symbol each name stands for is shown with it.

• Measurement & Experimental Method

  What would have to be true for this number to mean what I think it means?

  $$10,000,000\times 50\text{ns}=0.5\text{s per second}$$

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