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Orders of magnitude (time) in E notation
Planck time 1 E-25 s 1 E-24 s 1 E-21 s 1 E-18 s 1 E-17 s 1 E-16 s 1 E-15 s 1 E-14 s 1 E-13 s 1 E-12 s 1 E-11 s 1 E-10 s 1 E-9 s 1 E-8 s 1 E-7 s 1 E-6 s 1 E-5 s 1 E-4 s 1 E-3 s 1 E-2 s 1 E-1 s	1 E0 s 1 E1 s 1 E2 s 1 E3 s 1 E4 s 1 E5 s 1 E6 s 1 E7 s 1 E8 s 1 E9 s 1 E10 s 1 E11 s 1 E12 s 1 E13 s 1 E14 s 1 E15 s 1 E16 s 1 E17 s 1 E18 s 1 E19 s and more
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A nanosecond (ns) is one billionth of a second. See also times of other orders of magnitude.

To help compare orders of magnitude of different times this page lists times between 10⁻⁹ seconds and 10⁻⁸ seconds (1 nanosecond and 10 nanoseconds).

• shorter times
• 1.0 nanoseconds (1.0 ns) – cycle time for frequency 1 GHz, radio wavelength 0.3 m
• 1.02 nanoseconds (approximately) – time taken for light to travel 1 foot.
• 3.33564095 nanoseconds (approximately) – time taken for light to travel 1 metre
• longer times

By 2005, microprocessors could execute a singular instruction in 1 nanosecond.

Indeed, a common computer instruction is 'nanosleep' meaning suspend execution for a length of time given in nanoseconds (for example, http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man2/nanosleep.2.html#//apple_ref/doc/man/2/nanosleep )

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