We’ve all said it before “be there in a jiffy!” but how long is an actually “Jiffy”? Is it actually a unit of time?
It is! it is believed that the word was first used in 1779 to describe the length of a heartbeat or blinking of an eye. It’s typically 0.01 seconds, or 10 milliseconds long. An updated example of how long it is in the computer age would be the tick of the computer’s clock system.
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