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Why Your Laptop Clock Is Always a Few Seconds Off
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Inside nearly every computer, watch, and timekeeping appliance sits a quartz crystal cut into a tiny tuning fork shape. When an electric signal is applied, that crystal flexes and vibrates at a precise frequency of 32,768 times per second,…
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