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A stop watch has a circular dial divided into 120 divisions. What is its least count?

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If the hand of the stopwatch makes 1 revolution in a minute, and each revolution is divided into 120 divisions then the smallest division corresponds to $\frac{60}{120} = 0.5 s e c$ .

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