I’m watching Olympic luging right now (commercial break+computer recording=breathing room). I can’t imagine that many parts of my life are critically evaluated by one hundredth of a second. At work we’re glad when computers operate relatively closely performance wise and we never focus on hundredths of a second by itself. Sure, when you’re iterating through something that has thousands of lines or hundreds of thousands of lines you have to think about one hundredth being multiplied into seconds and eventually into minutes, but I won’t be getting a gold metal – just a “Wow, that’s fast.” verses a “It gets the job done.”

I don’t know that I do anything in one hundredth of a second, but it sure is nifty to have that sort of accuracy when measuring luge speeds.

UPDATE: They actually were keeping track of things to the thousandth, but the difference between racers was hundredths of seconds at times.