Flick (time)
A flick is a unit of time equal to exactly 1/705,600,000 of a second. The figure was chosen so that time periods associated with frequencies commonly used for video or screen frame rate (24, 25, 30, 48, 50, 60, 90, 100 and 120
A flick is approximately 1.42 × 10−9 s, which makes it larger than a nanosecond but much smaller than a microsecond.
The unit was launched in January 2018 by Facebook.[2] A similar unit for integer representation of temporal points was proposed in 2004 under the name TimeRef, splitting a second into 14,112,000 parts.[3] This makes 1 TimeRef equivalent to 50 flicks.
Etymology
[edit]The word flick is a portmanteau of frame (as in e.g. animation frame) and tick (as in computer instruction cycle).[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "OculusVR/Flicks". GitHub. Retrieved 21 October 2018.
- ^ a b "Facebook invents new unit of time". BBC News. 21 October 2018. Retrieved 21 October 2018.
- ^ Raphaël Troncy, Jean Carrive, Steffen Lalande and Jean-Philippe Poli (2004). "A Motivating Scenario for Designing an Extensible Audio-Visual Description Language".
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