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TICKS
Chapter 2 Program Instructions
Field of Application Function returning the time, that has passed since the last power up in
the printer, expressed in number of “TICKS” (1 TICK = 0.01 seconds).
Syntax TICKS
Remarks TICKS allows you to measure time more exactly than the TIME$ variable,
which cannot handle time units smaller than 1 second.
The TICKS counter is reset to zero at power up.
Example 10 A%=TICKS
20
RUN
PRINT A%
yields e.g.:
1081287
The time which has passed since the printer was started is 10812.87 seconds,
i.e. 3 hours 12.87 seconds.
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