Deviation measuring and computing system

Claim 1

IN A STATISTICAL DEVIATION MEASURING SYSTEM OF THE TYPE HAVING OPERATING MEANS FOR MEASURING DEVIATIONS OF SELECTED VALUES ABOUT A PREDETERMINED MEAN VALUE AND TRANSLATING SAID MEASURED VALUES INTO ALTERNATING SIGNALS, AND HAVING PLURAL OPERATING MEANS FOR SQUARING SAID ALTERNATING SIGNALS, INTEGRATING SAID SQUARED SIGNALS, AND DIVIDING SAID INTEGRATED SIGNALS BY A SIGNAL REPRESENTATIVE OF A SELECTED CONSTANT, CONTROL APPARATUS FOR SAID SYSTEM OPERATIVE TO CAUSE SAID SYSTEM TO DERIVE THE STATISTICAL DEVIATION OF DISCRETE MEASURED VALUES OF A SELECTED PORTION OF EACH SAMPLE OF A PLURALITY OF SUCCESSIVELY MOVING, DISCRETE SAMPLES COMPRISING, TIMING MEANS FOR GENERATING A PREDETERMINED NUMBER OF UNIFORMLY SPACED CONTROL PULSES, THE SPACING BETWEEN SAID PULSES BEING REPRESENTATIVE OF THE TIME SPACING BETWEEN SAID MEASURED VALUES OF SAID SELECTED PORTION OF EACH SUCCESSIVELY MOVING SAMPLE, MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID TIMING MEANS FOR CHOPPING SAID ALTERNATING SIGNALS INTO DISCRETE SEGMENTS REPRESENTATIVE OF SAID DISCRETE MEASURED VALUES, AND ACTUATING MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID SYSTEM OPERATING MEANS AND SAID TIMING MEANS AND OPERATIVE TO ACTUATE SAID SYSTEM OPERATING MEANS CONCURRENTLY EACH TIME A PULSE IS GENERATED.