Picosecond, Symbol PS (English: picosecond).
1 pi seconds equals one-zero seconds (10-12 seconds)
1,000 picosecond = 1 nanoseconds ns1,000,000 picosecond = 1 microseconds μs1,000,000,000 picosecond = 1 msec μs1,000,000,000,000 picosecond = 1 seconds s
Na-Sec
nanosecond, sign NS (English: nanosecond).
1 nanoseconds equals One-zero seconds (10-9 seconds)
1 nanoseconds = 1000 picosecond 1,000 nanoseconds = 1 microseconds μs1,000,000 nanoseconds = 1 msec ms1,000,000,000 nanoseconds = 1 seconds s
Microseconds
microseconds, Symbol μs (English: microsecond).
1 microseconds equals one out of 10,000 seconds (10-6 seconds)
0.000 001 microseconds = 1 picosecond ps0.001 microseconds = 1 nanoseconds μs1,000 microseconds = 1 milliseconds ms1,000,000 microseconds = 1 seconds s
Milliseconds
milliseconds, Symbol MS (English: Millisecond).
1 milliseconds equals 1 per thousand seconds (10-3 seconds)
0.000 000 001 msec = 1 picosecond ps0.000 001 msec = 1 nanoseconds ns0.001 milliseconds = 1 microseconds ms1000 milliseconds = 1 seconds s
Approximate time for various operations on a typical PC:
Perform a typical instruction 1/1,000,000,000 sec =1 read data from a first-level cache 0.5 nanoseconds branch prediction error 5 nanoseconds reads data from the two-level cache 7 nanosecond Mutex lock/unlock 25 nanoseconds read data from primary memory 100 nanoseconds send 2KB data in 1Gbps network 20,000 nanoseconds read 1MB from memory Data 250,000 nanoseconds reading data from a new disk location (track-seeking) 8,000,000 nanoseconds reads 1MB data from disk 20,000,000 nanoseconds in the United States contracted and returned to Europe
Conversion of seconds: Picosecond, nanosecond, microsecond, millisecond