Timer function discrete

[tsh73]

Reading a fiew posts (
thread314-576141 and than also
(

thread314-575881 got a question: "What is TIMER function discrete"? That is, how frequently it changes?

Here's a piece of code:
DO
tt = TIMER
IF told <> tt THEN PRINT (tt - told) * 100
told = tt
LOOP WHILE INKEY$ = &quot;&quot;

It shows values between 4.6875 and 6.25
(1/100th of a second).
I remember there is a sentence that timer &quot;tiks&quot; 18.2 times per second - that seems relevant to this.

So I don't think setting variable to store TIMER value to DOUBLE gives us much

Oh. Last thing. I tested this in QBasic 1.1 under Win 98.

 

[tsh73]

Interesting enough,
but I tried this in VB6 - and got same results.
I was expecting frequency of about 1 ms...