Units Of Time

[Daij]

Using the conventional units for very small moments in time (nanoSeconds, Picoseconds, etc)
How would you present a period of time that would be described as 1/138000000th of a second?

Thanks in advance

[dannyk13]

138 microseconds?

[bhg481]

7.25 nano seconds

[gingejbee]

OK...I'll bite.
7.25nanoseconds or 7250picoseconds.
(Danny....you'd need to convert the fraction given into it's decimal equivalent).

[benhilton]

I would multiply both top and bottom of the fraction by 1000
giving 1000/138 as the main calculation , the result of which will then be followed by x10 to the power of-9
( -9 for the six zeros plus another three zeros because I multiplied by 1000)

[dannyk13]

OK, it's pretty obvious that I am not a mathematician.

[ToraToraTora]

yep 7.25 nano seconds is correct.

[Daij]

Thanks very much. Far too clever for me

[ToraToraTora]

just type 1/138000000 into google and the answer is 7.2463768e-9. e-9 = 10 to the power of -9 , the nano prefix = 1 billionth (US) thus 7.25 nano seconds.

[gingejbee]

...although some of us used our own brainpower!

[CrapAtCryptics]

Dont see the point in naming something that has no practical use - if you must lets call it a Corbyn

[ToraToraTora]

what has no practical use?

[bhg481]

Even Corbyn has a practical use; he kept Labour out of power.

[Bert45]

gingejbee, you'd need to convert "it's" into its equivalent correct English punctuation.

[Naheed]

The time that would describe as 1/138000000th of a second will be 7.25 nanoseconds. And a nanosecond is equal to 1 billion part of a second or 10−9 second

[Theland]

Was the bus late?