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The Day of Five Billion, 11 July 1987, was designated by the United Nations Population Fund as the approximate day on which the world population reached five billion. Matej Gašpar from Zagreb, Croatia (then SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia), was chosen as the symbolic 5-billionth person alive on Earth.
1.29 m – length of the Cross Island Chapel, the smallest church in the world; 1.4 m – length of a Peel P50, the world's smallest car; 1.435 m – standard gauge of railway track used by about 60% of railways in the world = 4 ft 8 1 ⁄ 2 in; 2.5 m – distance from the floor to the ceiling in an average residential house [119]
A nanosecond (ns) is a unit of time in the International System of Units (SI) equal to one billionth of a second, that is, 1 / 1 000 000 000 of a second, or 10 −9 seconds. The term combines the SI prefix nano-indicating a 1 billionth submultiple of an SI unit (e.g. nanogram, nanometre, etc.) and second, the primary unit of time in the SI.
One billionth of one second 1 ns: The time needed to execute one machine cycle by a 1 GHz microprocessor 1 ns: The time light takes to travel 30 cm (11.811 in) 10 −6: microsecond: μs One millionth of one second 1 μs: The time needed to execute one machine cycle by an Intel 80186 microprocessor 2.2 μs: The lifetime of a muon
The home sold for $1.7 million in 2012. It was only on the market for 11 days before buyers snatched it up, Palm Springs Life reported. The custom-built home contains six bedrooms over 6,316 ...
A nanosecond (ns) is a unit of time in the International System of Units (SI) equal to one billionth of a second, that is, 1 / 1 000 000 000 of a second, or 10 −9 seconds. The term combines the SI prefix nano-indicating a 1 billionth submultiple of an SI unit (e.g. nanogram, nanometre, etc.) and second, the primary unit of time in the SI.
The second elevator would cost less, about $3 billion, "because you’d already have the first one up there and you could use that to build the second,” Edward says. Screenshot
That would be Jimmy Carter, the former U.S. president who in 1988, along with his wife, Rosalynn, helped workers from Habitat for Humanity construct the three-bedroom, two-bathroom house where ...