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  2. Orders of magnitude (time) - Wikipedia

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    5.4 × 10 83 Qs (1.7 × 10 106 years): The approximate lifespan of a supermassive black hole with a mass of 20 trillion solar masses [21] 10 10 10 76.66 {\displaystyle 10^{10^{10^{76.66}}}} Qs: The scale of an estimated Poincaré recurrence time for the quantum state of a hypothetical box containing an isolated black hole of stellar mass [ 22 ...

  3. Decimal time - Wikipedia

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    Sometimes in official records, decimal hours were divided into tenths, or décimes, instead of minutes. One décime is equal to 10 decimal minutes, which is nearly equal to a quarter-hour (15 minutes) in standard time. Thus, "five hours two décimes" equals 5.2 decimal hours, roughly 12:30 p.m. in standard time.

  4. Unit of time - Wikipedia

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    10 −12 s: One trillionth of a second. nanosecond: 10 −9 s: One billionth of a second. Time for molecules to fluoresce. shake: 10 −8 s: 10 nanoseconds, also a casual term for a short period of time. microsecond: 10 −6 s: One millionth of a second. Symbol is μs millisecond: 10 −3 s: One thousandth of a second. Shortest time unit used ...

  5. Metric time - Wikipedia

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    The commission proposed making the standard hour the base unit of metric time, but the proposal did not gain acceptance and was eventually abandoned. [11] When the modern SI system was defined at the 10th General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) in 1954, the ephemeris second (1/86400 of a mean solar day) was made one of the system's ...

  6. Hour - Wikipedia

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    Whole hours on a 12-hour clock are expressed using the contracted phrase o'clock, from the older of the clock. [6] (10 am and 10 pm are both read as "ten o'clock".) Hours on a 24-hour clock ("military time") are expressed as "hundred" or "hundred hours". [7] (1000 is read "ten hundred" or "ten hundred hours"; 10 pm would be "twenty-two hundred".)

  7. Military designation of days and hours - Wikipedia

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    1 November 1945, the day Operation Downfall (the invasion of Japan) was to begin. [10] The term also generically means "attack day". Y-Day 1 March 1946, the day Operation Coronet (the invasion of Tokyo Plains) was to occur. [10] Z-Day 10 June 1945, the day the Australian Imperial Forces landed in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei, part of Operation ...

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  9. Traditional Chinese timekeeping - Wikipedia

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    The time between each gēng is 1 ⁄ 10 of a day, making a gēng 2.4 hours—or 2 hours 24 minutes—long. The 5 gēngs in the night are numbered from one to five: yì gēng (一 更) (alternately chū gēng for "initial watch"); èr gēng ; sān gēng ; sì gēng ; and wǔ gēng .