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you can increase the pause time and then use a stop watch to see how accurate the com-

puter’s pause time is.

You can also modify this listing to print dots (or some other value) for a specified

amount of time rather than pausing for a specified amount of time. Try replacing line 40

with the following:

printf(“x”);

If your operating system has a program named sleep, you may need to give

Caution this program a different name to avoid conflicts.

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