Seconds
January 12, 2026
note-to-self
So:
- 1 second (s) = 1,000 milliseconds (ms)
- 1 second (s) = = 1,000,000 microseconds (μs)
But, I want to work these into my day-to-day more "Sure, but give me a hectosecond." "He ran that race in a decasecond." That 80-year-old is two and a half gigaseconds old."
- decasecond (das) = 10 seconds
- hectosecond (hs) = 100 seconds
- kilosecond (ks) = 1,000 seconds
- megasecond (Ms) = 1,000,000 seconds
- gigasecond (Gs) = 1,000,000,000 seconds
- terasecond (Ts) = 1,000,000,000,000 seconds
- petasecond (Ps) = 1,000,000,000,000,000 seconds
- exasecond (Es) = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 seconds
Most posts are for my own reference and reflection, and shouldn’t be taken as fully accurate or instructional.