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The intraday optical variability of the BL Lacertae object S5 0716+714 is studied using historical light curves. The well-sampled intranight data set is selected. In total, 19 333 data points have been collected over 208 nights. The source exhibits strong variability in the optical band. At a confidence level of 99.9 per cent, for 162 of the 208 nights the source shows intranight variability. The source varies with an increasing rate of 0.043 mag/h and a decreasing rate of 0.036 mag/h during the observations, with no evident difference between rising and falling parts. The fast variability is found on JD 245 1909, with a decreasing rate of 0.015 mag/min over 6 min. The temporal characteristic is studied by using the structure function method. The result shows that the source varies with an 11.5-min time-scale. For this source, the emission size is estimated to be 1.39 {x} 10¹⁴ cm, the mass of the central black hole is estimated to be 10^7.87 M_☉and the magnetic field strength is estimated to be 10.6 G.