Internet Time --- Multiples and Fractions

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Internet Time — Multiples & Fractions

The basic unit of Internet Time is the beat, 1/1000 of a day.

This is what you'd get if you divided a day into 10 decimal-hours and then divided each decimal hour into 100 decimal-minutes.

But, Swatch didn't call them decimal-hours and decimal-minutes. They called them beats. So what do you call 0.1 (1/10) beat? And what do you call 100 beats?

This page shows what happens if you apply standard metric prefixes.

For information on how I got this information, see the links at the bottom of the page.

*Term & Symbol*		*^Factor*	*Meaning*
Yottabeat	Yb	10²⁴	1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
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 (approx. 2.75 years)
Kilobeat	kb	10³	1000 (1 day, by definition!)
Hectobeat	hb	10²	100 (approx. 2.5 hours)
Dekabeat	dab	10¹	10 (approx. 15 minutes)
Beat	b	10⁰	1 (approx/ 1.5 minutes )
decibeat	db	10^-1	0.1 (approx. 8.5 seconds)
centibeat	cb	10^-2	0.01 (approx. 0.8 seconds)
millibeat	mb	10^-3	0.001 (approx. 0.08 seconds)
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

Also on the Net

Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM): The international organization that ensures world-wide uniformity of measurements and their traceability to the International System of Units (SI). (www.bipm.fr/enus/)

SI Base Units: Gives the definitions of the basic units of measurement, including the second. (www.bipm.fr/enus/3_SI/base_units.html)

SI Prefixes: Shows the prefixes and their symbols for standard metric units. (www.bipm.fr/enus/3_SI/si-prefixes.html)

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