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Glossary: Dynamic binning, and rate-/bin factors

If this is turned on, the mininum counts per bin entered on the form is valid when the count rate is 1 count s^-1. When the count rate changes by the "rate factor" the necessary counts for a bin to be full changes by the "bin factor". For more information see the dynamic binning documentation.