What should
we call this new time?
One issue that often crops up
is the naming conventions for this new internet time. Here are some
proposals that I have come up with for the new time system. These
are the standard metric prefixes.
| Prefix: |
|
Symbol: |
Magnitude: |
Meaning (multiply by): |
Old Time |
| Yottabeat |
Yb |
1024 |
1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 |
(approx) |
| Zettabeat |
Zb |
1021 |
1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 |
|
| Exabeat |
Eb |
1018 |
1 000 000 000 000 000 000 |
|
| Petabeat |
Pb |
1015 |
1 000 000 000 000 000 |
|
| Terabeat |
Tb |
1012 |
1 000 000 000 000 |
|
| Gigabeat |
Gb |
109 |
1 000 000 000 |
|
| Megabeat |
Mb |
106 |
1 000 000 |
2.75 years |
| Kilobeat |
kb |
103 |
1000 |
1 day |
| Hectobeat |
hb |
102 |
100 |
2.5 hours |
| Dekabeat |
dab |
10 |
10 |
15 mins |
| Beat |
b |
- |
- |
1.5 mins |
| decibeat |
db |
10-1 |
0.1 |
8.5 secs |
| centibeat |
cb |
10-2 |
0.01 |
0.8 secs |
| millibeat |
mb |
10-3 |
0.001 |
|
| microbeat |
ub |
10-6 |
0.000 001 |
|
| nanobeat |
nb |
10-9 |
0.000 000 001 |
|
| picobeat |
pb |
10-12 |
0.000 000 000 001 |
|
| femtobeat |
fb |
10-15 |
0.000 000 000 000 001 |
|
| attobeat |
ab |
10-18 |
0.000 000 000 000 000 001 |
|
| zeptobeat |
zb |
10-21 |
0.000 000 000 000 000 000 001 |
|
| yoctobeat |
yb |
10-24 |
0.000 000 000 000 000 000 000 001 |
|
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