Orders of magnitude (time)

Orders of magnitude (time)

Powers of 103 seconds	equal to...	common units	orders of magnitude
1 yoctosecond	10-24 s	--	1 ys, 10 ys, 100 ys
1 zeptosecond	10-21 s	--	1 zs, 10 zs, 100 zs
1 attosecond	10-18 s	--	1 as, 10 as, 100 as
1 femtosecond	10-15 s	--	1 fs, 10 fs, 100 fs
1 picosecond	10-12 s	--	1 ps, 10 ps, 100 ps
1 nanosecond	10-9 s	--	1 ns, 10 ns, 100 ns
1 microsecond	10-6 s	--	1 µs, 10 µs, 100 µs
1 millisecond	10-3 s	--	1 ms, 10 ms, 100 ms
1 second	1 s	minute = 60 s	1 s, 10 s, 100 s
1000 seconds	16.7 minutes	hour = 3600 s day = 86 400 s	103 s , 104 s , 105 s
1 million seconds	11.6 days	month = 2.6 x 106 s year = 31.6 x 106 s	106 s , 107 s , 108 s
1000 million seconds	32 years	century = 3.16 x 109 s	109 s , 1010 s , 1011 s
1012 seconds	32 000 years	--	1012 s , 1013 s , 1014 s
1015 seconds	32 million years	--	1015 s , 1016 s , 1017 s
1018 seconds	32 billion years	--	1018 s , 1019 s and more

The pages linked in the right-hand column contain lists of times that are of the same order of magnitude (power of ten). Rows in the table represent increasing powers of a thousand (3 orders of magnitude)

Orders of magnitude of other quantities: length, area, volume, mass

See also SI, SI prefixes, SI base units, units, time, orders of magnitude