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Old 08-01-2008, 07:44 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by Griff View Post
The touch should be the opponents by rule but the machine doesn't register a touch after .25(?) seconds.
IIRC one period of fencing time is 1/25th of a second, ie 0.04 seconds. I recall wondering how they decided this, and how they measured it.
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