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To help compare orders of magnitude of different times this page lists times between '10⁻⁹ seconds' and 10⁻⁸ seconds (1 nanosecond and 10 nanoseconds). A 'nanosecond' is one billionth of a second. ''See also'' times of other orders of magnitude.

★ shorter times

★ 1.0 nanoseconds (1.0 ns) – cycle time for frequency 1 GHz, radio wavelength 0.3 m

★ 1.02 nanoseconds (approximately) – time taken for light to travel 1 foot

★ 3.33564095 nanoseconds (approximately) – time taken for light to travel 1 metre

★ longer times
Grace Hopper often used pieces of wire which were just under one foot long, which is the distance that light travels in one nanosecond, to help explain timing of satellite communication and computers.