Originally Posted by Bret Kepner (Post 478173)

There's no such thing as a "dead heat" and adding the word "statistical" doesn't do anything to change the fact.

Comp-U-Link timing systems record, (internally), to the millionth of a second, (0.000000). The Comp-U-Link timeslip displays to the ten-thousandth of a second, (0.0000). Therefore, any "win margin" displayed as 0.000 can be as large 0.00009.

In the first example, that would be two-tenths of an inch, (0.20091 inches).

In the second example, that would be slightly less than two-tenths of an inch, (0.19987 inches).

Originally Posted by HR9121 (Post 478177)

There is no disputing that you are correct but we use the terminology all the time when referring to a MOV of .0000 because the time slip doesn't read "close as a split frog's hair!" I apologize to the offended parties for using such idioms to describe the outcome of these races.

Originally Posted by bottombulb (Post 478736)

The second example would be more than the first example, since the car that got there second was 150.18 mph. That would calculate to .23788 inches.

Originally Posted by Geerhead55 (Post 478808)

Aw,, dangit Cooter, now you did it! I was down at a local pond and the frogs were demonstrating,, with banners that said "Frog Lives Matter!" We're in for it now!
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