TI-H: Time...
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TI-H: Time...
Most of the mails and code I'll be sending all have time in values some of
you may not understand so I made this for your refrence...
mS is 1/1000th uS is 1/1000000th nS is 1/1000000000th
It's the other way around, a millisecond is a large timepiece, one thousenth
of a second. Divide a ms by 1000 and you get a us (microsecond), a millionth
of a sec. Again divide by 1000 to get a ns (nanosecond), nine places right of
the comma.
Prefix Abbrev Multiplier
------ ------ ----------
Peta P? 10^15
Tera T? 10^12
Giga G 10^ 9
Mega M 10^ 6
Kilo K 10^ 3
---- - 1
Milli m 10^-3
micro u (mu) 10^-6
nano n (nu?) 10^-9
pico p 10^-12
femto f? 10^-15
atto a? 10^-18
AFAIK, "micro" is the only prefix that regularly uses a greek letter
abbreviation... A fair amount of confusion was probably introduced with
capacitor values, which were (and ARE, to a large extent, at least in the
US) expressed in pF (aka uuF) and uF, skipping nF. The "104" designation
you see on bypass capacitors is a combination of numerics and the resistor
numbering system - it means "10", followed by four more zeros, pF (100000pf
== .1 uF, hardly ever "100 nF")
Gotta have a lot of respect for those lasers that generate TeraWatt
pulses a couple of picoseconds long...
Thanks,
Grant
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