World’s Most Accurate Clock Goes on Sale for $3.3 Million
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If time is money, precision in nanoseconds can be measured in millions of dollars.
Shimadzu Corp, a Kyoto, Japan-based precision equipment maker, has started selling a clock which is accurate to a deviation of one second over ten billion years. The strontium optical lattice clock is the first of its kind to be commercially available and will cost about 500 million yen ($3.3 million).