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2. Unit of time - Wikipedia

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   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] Also colloquially refers to a brief period of time. centiday 0.01 d (1 % of a day) 14.4 minutes, or 864 ...

3. Sexagesimal - Wikipedia

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   This notation leads to the modern signs for degrees, minutes, and seconds. The same minute and second nomenclature is also used for units of time, and the modern notation for time with hours, minutes, and seconds written in decimal and separated from each other by colons may be interpreted as a form of sexagesimal notation.

4. Prime (symbol) - Wikipedia

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   Primes are sometimes used to indicate minutes, and double primes to indicate seconds of time, as in the John Cage composition 4 ′ 33″ (spoken as "four thirty-three"), a composition that lasts exactly 4 minutes 33 seconds. This notation only applies to duration, and is seldom used for durations longer than 60 minutes. [8] [better source needed]

5. 96 Shortcuts for Accents and Symbols: A Cheat Sheet

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   The post 96 Shortcuts for Accents and Symbols: A Cheat Sheet appeared first on Reader's Digest. ... No problem! Just hit the Fn key, located on the bottom row, left-hand-side next to the control ...

6. Metric time - Wikipedia

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   The word "minute" comes from the Latin pars minuta prima, meaning "first small part", and "second" from pars minuta secunda or "second small part". Angular measure also uses sexagesimal units; there, it is the degree that is subdivided into minutes and seconds, while in time, it is the hour.

7. Second - Wikipedia

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   The second (symbol: s) is a unit of time derived from the division of the day first into 24 hours, then to 60 minutes and finally to 60 seconds each (24 × 60 × 60 = 86400). The current and formal definition in the International System of Units (SI) is more precise:

8. Word problem (mathematics education) - Wikipedia

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   Word problem from the Līlāvatī (12th century), with its English translation and solution. In science education, a word problem is a mathematical exercise (such as in a textbook, worksheet, or exam) where significant background information on the problem is presented in ordinary language rather than in mathematical notation.

9. Orders of magnitude (time) - Wikipedia

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   ys [4] Yoctosecond, (yocto-+ second), is one septillionth of a second 23 ys: The lower estimated bound on the half-life of isotope 7 of hydrogen (Hydrogen-7) 143 ys: The half-life of the Nitrogen-10 isotope of Nitrogen 156 ys: The mean lifetime of a Higgs Boson: 10 −21: zeptosecond: zs Zeptosecond, (zepto-+ second), is one sextillionth of one ...