Better Term than "Decisecond" [closed]

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I have a data element with units of tenths of a second (tha开发者_高级运维t is, the value "123" really means "12.3 seconds").

What is a good term for an descriptive identifier for this type of data? I'd be comfortable writing something like durationMilliseconds or durationMicroseconds, but durationDeciseconds looks odd. durationInTenthsOfSeconds doesn't make me happy either.

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Decisecond is the standard SI unit for this measurement, so I'd say using that is better than inventing something that may be ambiguous.

Actually, in the past I've used things like TICKS_PER_100MS for the same reason. But durationIn100msPeriods is just as bad as durationInTenthsOfSeconds.

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http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/decisecond

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Would durationTenthsOfASecond be too verbose?