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  2. StarCraft 2 and the quest for the highest APM - Engadget

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    Actions per minute, or APM, is the measure of how many clicks and key presses a player can perform in sixty seconds. As a struggling amateur, for example, I was able to perform 60 APM ...

  3. Actions per minute - Wikipedia

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    Actions per minute, abbreviated to APM, is a term used in video games, particularly real-time strategy and fighting games which refers to the total number of actions that a player can perform in a minute. Actions per minute are the number of actions (such as selecting units or issuing an order) completed within a minute of gameplay in real-time ...

  4. Counts per minute - Wikipedia

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    Disintegrations per minute (dpm) and disintegrations per second (dps) are measures of the activity of the source of radioactivity. The SI unit of radioactivity, the becquerel (Bq), is equivalent to one disintegration per second. This unit should not be confused with cps, which is the number of counts received by an instrument from the source.

  5. Geiger counter - Wikipedia

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    The sound of a geiger counter. A Geiger counter ( / ˈɡaɪɡər /, GY-gər; [1] also known as a Geiger–Müller counter or G-M counter) is an electronic instrument used for detecting and measuring ionizing radiation. It is widely used in applications such as radiation dosimetry, radiological protection, experimental physics and the nuclear ...

  6. Milliradian - Wikipedia

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    ⁠ 50 mm / 1000 m ⁠ = 0.05 mrad, or 1 click with a 0.05 mrad adjustment scope. In firearm optics, where 0.1 mrad per click is the most common mrad based adjustment value, another common rule of thumb is that an adjustment of ⁠ 1 / 10 ⁠ mrad changes the impact as many centimeters as there are hundreds of meters. In other words, 1 cm at ...

  7. Minute and second of arc - Wikipedia

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    A minute of arc is ⁠π 10 800⁠ of a radian . A second of arc, arcsecond (arcsec), or arc second, denoted by the symbol ″, [2] is ⁠ 1 60 ⁠ of an arcminute, ⁠ 1 3600⁠ of a degree, [1] ⁠ 1 1 296 000⁠ of a turn, and ⁠π 648 000⁠ (about ⁠ 1 206 264.8⁠) of a radian. These units originated in Babylonian astronomy as ...

  8. Phreaking - Wikipedia

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    By rapidly clicking the hook for a variable number of times at roughly 5 to 10 clicks per second, separated by intervals of roughly one second, the caller can dial numbers as if they were using the rotary dial. The pulse counter in the exchange counts the pulses or clicks and interprets them in two possible ways.

  9. Hitting the Books: What life on the internet was like at 300 ...

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    Early on, the heartbeat of the modem world pulsed at a steady 300 bits per second. Streams of binary digits flowed through the telephone network in 7- and 8-bit chunks, or “bytes,” and each ...