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Orders of magnitude (time)
Orders of magnitude |
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Powers of 103
seconds |
equal to...
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common units
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10-24 s
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10-21 s
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10-18 s
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10-15 s
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10-12 s
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10-9 s
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10-6 s
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10-3 s
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1 s
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1 second
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minute = 60 s
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103seconds
(1000 seconds) |
1 kilosecond
(16.7 minutes) |
hour = 3600 s
day = 86 400 s |
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106 seconds
(1 million seconds) |
1 megasecond
(11.6 days) |
month = 2.6 x 106 s
year ~= π x 107 s |
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109 seconds
(1000 million seconds) |
1 gigasecond
(32 years) |
century ~= π x 109 s
millennium ~= π x 1010 s |
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1012 seconds
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1 terasecond
(32 000 years) |
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1015 seconds
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1 petasecond
(32 million years) |
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1018 seconds
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1 exasecond
(32 billion years) |
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The pages linked in the right-hand column contain lists of times that are of the same order of magnitude (power of ten). Rows in the table represent increasing powers of a thousand (3 orders of magnitude)
Note: Planck time, the shortest physically meaningful instant of time, is approximately 5.4 x 10-44 s.
See also
- orders of magnitude (length)
- orders of magnitude (area)
- orders of magnitude (volume)
- orders of magnitude (mass)
Last updated: 10-24-2004 05:10:45