Friday, May 24, 2013

A "jiffy" (as in, "I'll be back in a jiffy") is an actual unit of time for 1/250th of a second.

More accurately, the duration of a “jiffy” varies depending upon the field of study.  In electronics, a jiffy is the time between alternating current power cycles, 1/50 of a second in most main power supplies.  Within the Linux operating system kernel, since release 2.6.13, on the...
A "jiffy" (as in, "I'll be back in a jiffy") is an actual unit of time for 1/250th of a second.

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