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One microsecond is 1 × 10-6 seconds.
Time is measured in seconds. Seconds are represented by the letter s or sec. A microsecond has a duration of 0.000001 seconds.
A microsecond is a unit of time in the International System of Units (SI) equal to one millionth (0.000001 or 10−6 or 1⁄1,000,000) of a second. The prefix "micro" in the metric system stands for 10-6. The abbreviation for microseconds is µs; for instance, 1 µs can be used to represent 1 microsecond.
Microseconds are equal to 1 x 10-6 seconds
1 microsecond = (1 / 1) × 10-6 × 10-0 seconds
1 microsecond = (1) × 10-6-0 seconds
1 microsecond = (1) × 10-6 seconds
1 microsecond = 1 × 1.0E-6 seconds
Therefore, 1 microsecond = 1.0E-6 seconds
Multiply the time by the conversion ratio to convert a second measurement to a microsecond measurement.
Since 1,000,000 microseconds make up one second, you can use the following straightforward calculation to convert:
microseconds = seconds × 1,000,000
The seconds are multiplied by 1,000,000 to get the time in microseconds.
As an illustration, the formula above can be used to convert 5 seconds to microseconds.
5 sec = (5 × 1,000,000) = 5,000,000 µs
Light travels 1,000 feet in a millionth of a second (microsecond). Even though it takes a few blocks for the light from a street light to reach us, it seems like an instant to us.
Light travels 186,000 miles (or 300,000 kilometres) in a second. That is roughly how far away the moon is.
These extremely brief references to historical periods all have various applications to information technology. Technology experts and scientists are constantly exploring ways to evaluate devices using more accurate time measurements.
It might be easier to understand just how brief these units of time are if we use an example that most people can identify with. It is well known that blinking takes hardly any time. But it takes about 350,000 microseconds for one eye to blink on average! Another illustration, though one that spans a little less time, is a typical camera flash. A flash lasts 1,000 microseconds and is visible instantly.
One quadrillionth of a second is known as a femtosecond. One trillionth of a second is a picosecond. In comparison to a microsecond, which is one millionth of a second, a nanosecond is one billionth of a second.
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