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  2. Orders of magnitude (time) - Wikipedia

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    In most cases, the base unit is seconds or years. Prefixes are not usually used with a base unit of years. Therefore, it is said "a million years" instead of "a megayear". Clock time and calendar time have duodecimal or sexagesimal orders of magnitude rather than decimal, e.g., a year is 12 months, and a minute is 60 seconds.

  3. Microsecond - Wikipedia

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    10 microseconds (μs) – cycle time for frequency 100 kHz, radio wavelength 3 km. 18 microseconds – net amount per year that the length of the day lengthens, largely due to tidal acceleration. [3] 20.8 microseconds – sampling interval for digital audio with 48,000 samples/s. 22.7 microseconds – sampling interval for CD audio (44,100 ...

  4. Unit of time - Wikipedia

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    Ten seconds (one sixth of a minute) minute: 60 s: hectosecond: 100 s: milliday: 1/1000 d (0.001 d) 1.44 minutes, or 86.4 seconds. Also marketed as a ".beat" by the Swatch corporation. moment: 1/40 solar hour (90 s on average) Medieval unit of time used by astronomers to compute astronomical movements, length varies with the season. [4]

  5. Millisecond - Wikipedia

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    A millisecond (from milli-and second; symbol: ms) is a unit of time in the International System of Units equal to one thousandth (0.001 or 10 −3 or 1 / 1000) of a second [1] [2] or 1000 microseconds. A millisecond is to one second, as one second is to approximately 16.67 minutes.

  6. Metric time - Wikipedia

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    One kè was usually defined as 1 ⁄ 100 of a day until 1628, though there were short periods before then where days had 96, 108 or 120 kè. [7] A kè is about 14.4 minutes, or 14 minutes 24 seconds. In the 19th century, Joseph Charles François de Rey-Pailhade endorsed Lagrange’s proposal of using centijours, but abbreviated cé , and ...

  7. TU (time unit) - Wikipedia

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    In some data communication standards, a time unit (TU) is equal to 1024 microseconds. [1] This unit of time was originally introduced in IEEE 802.11-1999 standard [2] and continues to be used in newer issues of the IEEE 802.11 standard. [1] In the 802.11 standards, periods of time are generally described as integral numbers of time units.

  8. Elon Musk’s new ‘user seconds’ metric is another curious ...

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    Musk claims that cumulative user seconds, specifically via Android and iOS, is the “hardest to game.” A source at the firm said this to me, too. “It’s more exact, it does keep bots out of ...

  9. Nanosecond - Wikipedia

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    A nanosecond (ns) is a unit of time in the International System of Units (SI) equal to one billionth of a second, that is, ⁠ 1 / 1 000 000 000 ⁠ of a second, or 10 −9 seconds. The term combines the SI prefix nano-indicating a 1 billionth submultiple of an SI unit (e.g. nanogram, nanometre, etc.) and second, the primary unit of time in the SI.