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able to check the temperature 10 times a second
I note your doubts about the value of this, or whether a 10Hz refresh rate is any great shakes. It occurs to me that the humble thermostat, based on expanding metal or wax (or whatever), is capable of an almost incalculably superior performance.
Digital is one of those words that people who don't have the faintest notion of what it means, or else cynically disregard that knowledge use - like people used 'radioactive' or 'electrical' in all kinds of ridiculous ways in the C19th and C20th. My last work in IT was on the HMRC contract and their Chief Technology Officer started calling everything in sight 'digital' and he had that awful habit of using it as a noun.
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