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[timer] How to add a "sleep" or "wait" to my Lua Script?

This homebrew function have precision down to a 10th of a second or less.

function sleep (a) 
    local sec = tonumber(os.clock() + a); 
    while (os.clock() < sec) do 
    end 
end

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