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Orders of magnitude (time)

Orders of magnitude (time)

Powers of 10³ seconds	equal to...	common units	orders of magnitude
1 attosecond	10^-21 s	--	1 as, 10 as[?], 100 as
1 femtosecond	10^-15 s	--	1 fs, 10 fs[?], 100 fs
1 picosecond	10^-12 s	--	1 ps, 10 ps, 100 ps
1 nanosecond	10^-9 s	--	1 ns, 10 ns, 100 ns
1 microsecond	10^-6 s	--	1 µs, 10 µs, 100 µs
1 millisecond	10^-3 s	--	1 ms, 10 ms, 100 ms
1 second	1 s	minute = 60 s	1 s, 10 s, 100 s
1000 seconds	16.7 minutes	hour = 3600 s day = 86 400 s	10³ s , 10⁴ s , 10⁵ s
1 million seconds	11.6 days	month = 2.6 x 10⁶ s year = 31.6 x 10⁶ s	10⁶ s , 10⁷ s , 10⁸ s
1000 million seconds	32 years	century = 3.16 x 10⁹ s	10⁹ s , 10¹⁰ s , 10¹¹ s
10¹² seconds	32 000 years	--	10¹² s , 10¹³ s , 10¹⁴ s
10¹⁵ seconds	32 million years	--	10¹⁵ s , 10¹⁶ s , 10¹⁷ s
10¹⁸ seconds	32 billion years	--	10¹⁸ s , 10¹⁹ s and more

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)

Orders of magnitude of other quantities: length, area, volume, mass

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