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  2. Orders of magnitude (time) - Wikipedia

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    millisecond: ms One thousandth of one second 1 ms: The time for a neuron in the human brain to fire one impulse and return to rest [13] 4–8 ms: The typical seek time for a computer hard disk: 10 −2: centisecond cs One hundredth of one second 1.6667 cs: The period of a frame at a frame rate of 60 Hz.

  3. Unit of time - Wikipedia

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    millisecond: 10 −3 s: One thousandth of a second. Shortest time unit used on stopwatches. jiffy (electronics) ~ 10 −3 s: Used to measure the time between alternating power cycles. Also a casual term for a short period of time. centisecond: 10 −2 s: One hundredth of a second. decisecond: 10 −1 s: One tenth of a second. second: 1 s: SI ...

  4. Vacuum-tube computer - Wikipedia

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    The access time for Williams-tube memory on the IBM 701 was 30 microseconds. [8] Magnetic drum memory was invented in 1932 by Gustav Tauschek in Austria. [9] [10] A drum consisted of a large rapidly rotating metal cylinder coated with a ferromagnetic recording material. Most drums had one or more rows of fixed read-write heads along the long ...

  5. Unix time - Wikipedia

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    JavaScript provides a Date library which provides and stores timestamps in milliseconds since the Unix epoch and is implemented in all modern desktop and mobile web browsers as well as in JavaScript server environments like Node.js. [24] Filesystems designed for use with Unix-based operating systems tend to use Unix time.

  6. General Fusion - Wikipedia

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    In 2016, the firm reported plasma lifetimes up to 2 milliseconds and electron temperatures in excess of 400 eV (4,800,000 °C). [38] Around 2017 the company performed a series of experiments named Plasma Compression Small (PCS). These implosion experiments used a chemical driver to compress an aluminum liner onto a compact toroid plasma.

  7. NearLink - Wikipedia

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    The SLB mode focuses on high-speed, high-capacity, and high-precision application scenarios, such as video transmission, large file sharing, and precise positioning. It reportedly provides a data transmission rate of up to 1.2 Gbit/s, or twice that of Wi-Fi, and supports latency of 20 milliseconds and simultaneous access by 4096 users.

  8. List of stars in Virgo - Wikipedia

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