yottasecond

See also: yotta-second

English

Etymology

yotta- +‎ second

Noun

yottasecond (plural yottaseconds)

  1. (metrology) An SI unit of time equal to 1024 seconds. Symbol: Ys
    • 2000 October 31, Joe Harrison <[email protected]>, “Re: Bt openworld limitations .. post `em here”, in uk.telecom.broadband‎ (Usenet), message-ID <[email protected]>:
      Trades Descriptions Act... "always on" presumably means 100.00 % uptime for the rest of infinity with nary a yottasecond's downtime.
    • 2009 February 20, Larry Wall <[email protected]>, “Re: r25445 - docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library”, in perl.perl6.language‎ (Usenet), message-ID <[email protected]>:
      Basically, I want yottaseconds and yoctoyears calculated with the same datatype for normal time.
    • 2009 April 3, <[email protected]>, “Re: The first rule of marriage”, in soc.religion.quaker,alt.stupidity‎ (Usenet), message-ID <3ff2d63e-89dd-4c2d-bf14-995ec7088b92@y13g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>:
      12.7 furlongs per fortnight in parsecs per yottasecond

Usage notes
  • Not currently used in scientific literature. Occasionally used informally to denote a very long time, an age.
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