Timeit on pause(2) returns weird ouput

I am trying to get the timeit function to work.I read https://uk.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/timeit.html and get the example:

X = rand(100);

f = @() svd(X);

t1 = timeit(f)

I want to try this using the pause(2), since this should take about 2 seconds:

g = @() pause(2);

t2 = timeit(g)

the output is

t2 =

3.4639e-06

which is a lot less than the expected 2 seconds. Clearly I am missunderstanding something (which probably makes my more serious attempts at using timeit also wrong), but what?

Answer 1

[Peter Perkins]

The issue is pause, not timeit:

"STATE = pause(...) returns the state of pause previous to processing the input arguments."

>> t2 = timeit(g,0)
t2 =
2.000208413333