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  2. Metric time - Wikipedia

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    1.67 minutes (or 1 minute 40 seconds) 10 3: kilosecond: 1 000: 16.7 minutes (or 16 minutes and 40 seconds) 10 6: megasecond: 1 000 000: 11.6 days (or 11 days, 13 hours, 46 minutes and 40 seconds) 10 9: gigasecond: 1 000 000 000: 31.7 years (or 31 years, 252 days, 1 hour, 46 minutes, 40 seconds, assuming that there are 7 leap years in the interval)

  3. Torsion pendulum clock - Wikipedia

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    A torsion pendulum clock, more commonly known as an anniversary clock or 400-day clock, is a mechanical clock which keeps time with a mechanism called a torsion pendulum. This is a weighted disk or wheel, often a decorative wheel with three or four chrome balls on ornate spokes, suspended by a thin wire or ribbon called a torsion spring (also ...

  4. Clock angle problem - Wikipedia

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    The angle is typically measured in degrees from the mark of number 12 clockwise. The time is usually based on a 12-hour clock. A method to solve such problems is to consider the rate of change of the angle in degrees per minute. The hour hand of a normal 12-hour analogue clock turns 360° in 12 hours (720 minutes) or 0.5° per minute.

  5. Unit of time - Wikipedia

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    0.1 d (10 % of a day) 2.4 hours, or 144 minutes. One-tenth of a day is 1 dd (deciday), also called "gēng" in traditional Chinese timekeeping. day: 24 h: Longest unit used on stopwatches and countdowns. The SI day is exactly 86 400 seconds. week: 7 d: Historically sometimes also called "sennight". decaday 10 d (1 Dd) 10 days.

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  7. 360-day calendar - Wikipedia

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    The 360-day calendar is a method of measuring durations used in financial markets, in computer models, in ancient literature, and in prophetic literary genres.. It is based on merging the three major calendar systems into one complex clock [citation needed], with the 360-day year derived from the average year of the lunar and the solar: (365.2425 (solar) + 354.3829 (lunar))/2 = 719.6254/2 ...

  8. Scientists say Earth on track for disastrous sea level rise - AOL

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    World leaders in 2015 agreed to limit warming to well below 2 degrees C and also to aim for 1.5 degrees. But many countries are struggling to cut fossil fuels from their economies, and efforts ...

  9. Second - Wikipedia

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    1 minute, 40 seconds 10 −3 s ms millisecond: 10 3 s ks kilosecond 16 minutes, 40 seconds 10 −6 s μs microsecond: 10 6 s Ms megasecond 1 week, 4 days, 13 hours, 46 minutes, 40 seconds 10 −9 s ns nanosecond: 10 9 s Gs gigasecond 31.7 years 10 −12 s ps picosecond: 10 12 s Ts terasecond 31,700 years 10 −15 s fs femtosecond: 10 15 s Ps ...