Fun Facts. 1  Table tennis has been an Olympic sport since 1988. 2  In professional table-tennis volleys, the ball can reach speeds as high as 90 miles per hour. 3  Table tennis is the national sport of China.  Table tennis is the second most played sport in the world, behind soccer.
In medicine this is used to document the patient's exertion during a test, and sports coaches use the scale to assess the intensity of training and competition. The original scale introduced by Gunnar Borg rated exertion on a scale of 6-20. Borg then constructed a category (C) ratio (R) scale, the Borg CR10 Scale. This is especially used in clinical diagnosis of breathlessness and dyspnea, chest pain, angina and musculo-skeletal pain.
To get the lowdown on gamut, we have to dive to the bottom of a musical scale developed by 11th-century musician and monk Guido of Arezzo. Guido called the first line of his bass staff gamma and the first note in his scale ut, which meant that gamma ut was the term for a note written on the first staff line.