Re: Date and time on Cindu: yearly update
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 19, 2008, 2:05 |
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On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 9:53 PM, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
> That means that, to a ridiculous level of precision, 1 Earth second =
> 1.098317231426 Cindu seconds, and 1 Cindu second is 0.91048375768596
> of an Earth second.
Let's see. An atomic second is defined as the length of time that
gives Cæsium-133 radiation a frequency of exactly 9,192,631,770 Hz; no
sense worrying about anything smaller than a single cycle of that
radiation. So a Cindu second is 8,369,741,917 Cæsium-133 cycles.
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>