Visual Studio timer problem - winforms

I couldn't find any explanation for the following problem. Hope you to help me to know the solution...
Let's make a new windows appliaction (using any version of VS), and add a button, timer (we modify the interval to become = 10), and a label (with initial text = "0").
write the following code in the timer:
label1.Text =
(Convert.ToInt32(label1.Text) +
1).ToString();
write the following code in the button:
timer1.Enabled = true;
The label should show an incremental counter starting from 0.
Logically, each 100 counts should consume 1 second, but this is NOT the truth.
What happens is that each 100 counts consume a little bit more than 1 second !!!
What is the cause of this behavior????!!!
Thank you very much for your listenning, and waiting for your reply because I really searched for an explenation but I couldn't find anything.

If you are using System.Windows.Forms.Timer, it is limited to an accuracy of 55 ms.
The Windows Forms Timer component is single-threaded, and is limited to an accuracy of 55 milliseconds. If you require a multithreaded timer with greater accuracy, use the Timer class in the System.Timers namespace.
See the Remarks section: System.Windows.Forms.Timer

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I'm trying to detect tones in an phone audio signal (Busy and Ring to be exact).
I used a Goertzel algorithm to detect one frquency in the signal.
I dont need to search for multiple frquencies, it's only the one I want or not (1/0) (it's before the call starts)
On another side I wrote a pattern detector (on for 300ms, off for 100ms, on for 300ms, off for 100ms for example). I get a percentage of similitude to my pattern than I decide if I found it or not.
I worked with sample from one tone database web site but it seems to give generated signal : too much clean compared to the real sound you can get from a phone.
My goertzel filter gives something like this in reality:
When I run this on one sample I got something like this:
https://i.stack.imgur.com/rZdgZ.png
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So far, I tried this:
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I computed 2 goertzel : g1 = goertzel(frq) and g2 = goertzel(frq-100) then result = (g1 > g2):
This is not always working. very often g1=g2 and "100" may not always work.
g1 = goertzel(frqn) g1 = goertzel(frqn/2) and result = g1 > g2. It's fine for detecting the frequence but not the silence
in addition I would prefer to avoid to run 2 times the filter.
What do you suggest ?
Thanks
Edit
I think I managed to get what I want. In real time:
I compute the average of the last 20 goertzel magnitudes.
I update the max of this average
The signal was found if avg > (max/2)
On the screenshot below the result is in gray
https://i.stack.imgur.com/L432s.jpg
Edit 2
source code:
https://github.com/nonprenom/tones_detector

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I am very new to programming and coming from a "custom map" background in games like SC2. I am currently trying to make a platformer game in Love2d. But I wonder how I can make something wait X amount of seconds before doing the next thing.
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Download link:https://github.com/vrld/hump

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