Sentence examples for billion ticks per second from inspiring English sources
For years, Intel has steadily increased the "clock speed" of its processors, the fastest of which now run at 3.4GHz, or 3.4 billion ticks per second.
Because I just see zero per second.
A modern PC typically has a processor running at 3.0GHz (3 billion clock ticks per second), little changed from a PC made three or four years ago.
Think of it as a watch with a hand that ticks just over 9 billion times per second.
Another laser that "ticks" 518 trillion times per second provokes a transition between two energy levels in the atoms.
There are TIMER_FREQ timer ticks per second, where TIMER_FREQ is a macro defined in devices/timer.h.h
Timer values are expressed as signed 64-bit numbers, which at 100 ticks per second should be good for almost 2,924,712,087 years.
It was ticking away in on the bench at irregular intervals, about one tick per second, and an oscilloscope trace was registering each pulse.
I pace myself; one, two, three, ticking off every second as the burn begins to creep along my abdominal muscles.
What if, perchance, we someday develop a rifle that, instead of firing one bullet per sixty ticks of the clock's second hand, has the inverse effect — unloading sixty rounds per second through the power of machinery?
