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by SomeStupidPoint 3127 days ago
How accurate does that need to be...?

100ms? 10ms? 1ms? 100us?
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Daviey 3127 days ago
Finance centric:

Finra (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) requires <50ms

MiFID II (EU centric) HFT requirement can be as low as 100 microseconds accuracy, or 0.1ms.

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benwilber0 3127 days ago
It varies by sport and how accurate you need your timers to be. NBA needs a timer within "seconds" -- Formula 1 and NASCAR need timers within milliseconds.
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