• Sleep

    Question: Define a function 'sleep' that behaves similarly to the Unix system command 'sleep'. The function should receive a 'time' as the input argument.

    More Information:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_(command)

    Example

                                    
                                q)\t sleep each 1e3*1 2 5 / seconds
7999
q)\t sleep 500 / millis
499

    Solution

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    functions
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