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What_The_Chris posted...

this is the most correct answer so far. A centisecond is super weird to see because 99% of the time, you'd hear "X hundredths of a second"

It's no more correct, but it is more colloquial. "Centi-" is a perfectly valid SI prefix, it's just rarely used outside of length (and volume, in parts of Europe). Similarly, you rarely see anyone express 4300 km as 4.3 megameters, but that's no less correct. It's just going to make post people do a double take because it's not a unit they're used to hearing.

zebatov posted...

Thanks. Thats what I thought. So when dealing with ping online and theyre talking in ms, the delay between ten and fifty isnt really that much at all then.

10-50 milliseconds isn't a big deal, no. 10-50 centiseconds, which is the unit you're looking at there, can border on nearly unplayable at the 50 end, since that's a tenth to half of a second. A millisecond is a tenth of a centisecond, though, so if the 10-50 is quoted in ms, you're good.

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