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  2. Unit of time - Wikipedia

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    The TU (for time unit) is a unit of time defined as 1024 μs for use in engineering. The svedberg is a time unit used for sedimentation rates (usually of proteins). It is defined as 10 −13 seconds (100 fs). The galactic year, based on the rotation of the galaxy and usually measured in million years. [2]

  3. Orders of magnitude (time) - Wikipedia

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    In most cases, the base unit is seconds or years. Prefixes are not usually used with a base unit of years. Therefore, it is said "a million years" instead of "a megayear". Clock time and calendar time have duodecimal or sexagesimal orders of magnitude rather than decimal, e.g., a year is 12 months, and a minute is 60 seconds.

  4. Metric time - Wikipedia

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    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)

  5. Non-numerical words for quantities - Wikipedia

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    The achievement of, a generally positive feat, three times in a game, or another achievement based on the number three [6] Several: 3+ Three or more but not many. Small gross: 120 Ten dozen (10x12) [7] Great hundred: 120 Ten dozen (10x12) or six score (6x20), also known as long-hundred or twelfty [8] [9] None: 0 Zero Lakh: 100,000

  6. The Million Second Quiz - Wikipedia

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    The Million Second Quiz is an American game show that was hosted by Ryan Seacrest and broadcast by NBC.The series aired from September 9 to September 19, 2013. For one million seconds (11 days, 13 hours, 46 minutes, and 40 seconds), contestants attempted to maintain control of a "money chair" by winning trivia matches against other contestants, earning money for every second they occupied the ...

  7. Time in physics - Wikipedia

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    The relative accuracy of such a time standard is currently on the order of 10 −15 [13] (corresponding to 1 second in approximately 30 million years). The smallest time step considered theoretically observable is called the Planck time , which is approximately 5.391×10 −44 seconds – many orders of magnitude below the resolution of current ...

  8. Time formatting and storage bugs - Wikipedia

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    On 5 January 1975, the 12-bit field that had been used for dates in the TOPS-10 operating system for DEC PDP-10 computers overflowed, in a bug known as "DATE75". The field value was calculated by taking the number of years since 1964, multiplying by 12, adding the number of months since January, multiplying by 31, and adding the number of days since the start of the month; putting 2 12 − 1 ...

  9. 20 (number) - Wikipedia

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    A 'score' is a group of twenty (often used in combination with a cardinal number, e.g. fourscore to mean 80), [11] but also often used as an indefinite number [12] (e.g. the newspaper headline "Scores of Typhoon Survivors Flown to Manila").