Kilosecond

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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 kilosecond is 1000 seconds (16 minutes, 40 seconds), so there are 86.4 kiloseconds in a 24 hour day. The second is the International System of Units (SI) base unit of time, combine with the prefix kilo- which means 1000, results in the definition of a kilosecond. Although the metric system dictates the use of the kilosecond, it is rarely used in practice. The more common (and irregular) units of minutes (60 seconds) and hours (60 minutes) result in a conversion factor of 3600 when converting seconds to hours. The use of kiloseconds (1000 seconds) in research papers is increasing in popularity, but is still far less common than the standard hour (3600 seconds).

[edit] Usage

• It took me two kiloseconds to get to work today (about half an hour)
• The meeting was about 4 kiloseconds long (just over an hour)
• The snail crossed the desk in 1.3 kiloseconds (21.6 minutes)
• The train arrived 1.167 kiloseconds late (19.45 minutes)

[edit] Orders of Magnitude

To help compare orders of magnitude of different times, this page lists times between 10³ seconds and 10⁴ seconds (approximately 16.7 minutes to 2.8 hours). A kilosecond is one thousand seconds.

• shorter times
• 1.200 kiloseconds = 20 minutes -- duration of a period in professional ice hockey
• 1.500 kiloseconds (25 minutes) -- duration of the 23rd Piano Concerto, K.488 of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• 1.892 kiloseconds = 31'32" - duration of Igor Stravinsky's ballet score Le Sacre du printemps (composer's 1960 recording).
• 2.700 kiloseconds = 45 minutes – the length of the Anglo-Zanzibar War, the shortest war in history
• 2.926 kiloseconds = 48 minutes 46 seconds – the change in time of moon rise from one day to the next
• 3.000 kiloseconds (approximately): duration of Johannes Brahms' second piano concerto
• 3.320 kiloseconds = 56 minutes - duration of the collapse of World Trade Center #2 (South Tower) on September 11, 2001
• 3.480 kiloseconds = 58 minutes – half-life of nobelium-259
• 3.600 kiloseconds = 60 minutes = one hour
• 4.440 kiloseconds = 74 minutes – the originally specified maximum length of audio that can be stored on a 120-mm compact disc
• 5.400 kiloseconds = 90 minutes – the time needed for an object in low earth orbit to circle the earth
• 5.520 kiloseconds = 92 minutes - length of the Nutcracker Ballet, music by Peter Tchaikovsky, production by George Balanchine, duration may vary depending on performance
• 5.700 kiloseconds = 95 minutes – length of Gustav Mahler's Third Symphony, the longest symphony in the repertory of classical music
• 7.140 kiloseconds = 119 minutes – runtime of the film Citizen Kane
• 7.466 kiloseconds = 2h4'26" - Marathon world record time for men set in the Berlin Marathon by Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia on September 30, 2007
• 8.125 kiloseconds = 2h15'25" - Marathon world record for women set by Paula Radcliffe of United Kingdom on April 13, 2003
• longer times

[edit] See also

• times of other orders of magnitude
• Hours
• Minutes
• Seconds

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