According to Ulysses :
Just curious because I've never worked in a shop with fluorescent lights,
but is it true that the blade on a saw can appear to be stopped due to the
60 cycle strobing of the lights?

It _can_. Whether it does, and by how much, depends on a lot of factors.

First requirement is that the blade on the saw is rotating at some
fixed multiple of 120Hz.

Ordinary fluorescents are pretty lousy strobes.
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Chris Lewis, Una confibula non set est
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