Lesson 10 · The delay block

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The computer is absurdly fast, doing thousands of things while you blink. The Delay block slows it down so it runs at your speed and you can see what it does.

🎯 The challenge of this lesson

Change the Delay to five hundred milliseconds and watch it run twice as fast; then set it to five thousand, and you'll see a new number every five seconds.

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