Orders of magnitude (time) (original) (raw)

Orders of magnitude (time)

Powers of 103seconds equal to... common units orders of magnitude
1 yoctosecond 10-24 s -- 1 ys, 10 ys, 100 ys
1 zeptosecond 10-21 s -- 1 zs, 10 zs, 100 zs
1 attosecond 10-18 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 �s, 10 �s, 100 �s
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 sday = 86 400 s 103 s , 104 s , 105 s
1 million seconds 11.6 days month = 2.6 x 106 syear = 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

See also SI, SI prefixes, SI base units, units, time, orders of magnitude