yottasecond

yottasecond

See also: yotta-second

English

Etymology

yotta- +‎ second

Noun

yottasecond (plural yottaseconds)

1. A unit of time equal to 10²⁴ (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) seconds and with symbol Ys.
   • 2000 October 31, Joe Harrison <[e-mail]>, “Re: Bt openworld limitations .. post `em here”, in uk.telecom.broadband, Usenet‎, message-ID <8tms8c$2arb$[e-mail]>:

     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 <[e-mail]>, “Re: r25445 - docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library”, in perl.perl6.language, Usenet‎, message-ID <[e-mail]>:

     Basically, I want yottaseconds and yoctoyears calculated with the same datatype for normal time.

   • 2009 April 3, <[e-mail]>, “Re: The first rule of marriage”, in soc.religion.quaker,alt.stupidity, Usenet‎, message-ID <[e-mail]>:

     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.