Decades to Minutes (dec to min)
1 decade equals 5,259,492 minutes exactly.
How to convert decades to minutes
To convert decades to minutes, multiply the number of decades by 5,259,492. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply minutes by 1.90132431×10⁻⁷ (rounded).
minutes = decades × 5,259,492
Example: 10 decades = 52,594,920 minutes.
Months and years are not constant. This site uses the average Gregorian year of 365.2425 days, so one 'year' converts to 365.2425 days, not 365; use 'common year' for exactly 365 days.
About these units
Decade (dec)
Ten years.
Greek dekas, a group of ten, gave English decade, and the Latin equivalent decennium survives in words like decennial. The idea of naming whole decades is newer. The convention of grouping years by their tens digit, so that 1960 to 1969 is the 1960s, became common in the late 19th century, and the 20th century then produced a gallery of nicknames such as the Roaring Twenties and the Swinging Sixties.
A decade is ten years, which on this site means ten average Gregorian years. The two counting styles can disagree, in the same way as with centuries: since the AD calendar has no year zero, a strict reading makes the first decade run from year 1 to year 10. A 2019 YouGov poll of 13,582 US adults found 64 percent expected the next decade to be 2020 to 2029, 17 percent said 2021 to 2030, and 19 percent did not know. Most people prefer the zero-to-nine version.
1 decade = 315,569,520 seconds (exactly).
Sources: Wikipedia: Decade; Wikipedia: Year zero
Minute (min)
60 seconds. Defined as one sixtieth of an hour.
Minute means small, not short. It comes from the Latin pars minuta prima, the first small part, produced when sixty-based division was applied to the hour. Al-Biruni is credited with dividing the hour into minutes, seconds, thirds and fourths around the year 1000, and Roger Bacon used the same scheme in 1267. For everyday life the minute needed hardware: Jost Bürgi is said to have made the first clock with a minute hand, for Tycho Brahe in 1577, and watches got minute hands only after Thomas Tompion's hairspring of 1675 made them accurate enough.
A minute is 60 seconds, exactly 1/60 of an hour, and the BIPM's SI Brochure is the reference for its symbol, min. Civil timekeeping can bend the rule: because of leap seconds, a UTC minute occasionally holds 61 seconds. A negative leap second would produce a 59-second minute, but that has never happened in more than 40 years. People use the minute for cooking, lectures and phone calls, and the same name serves for the arcminute, which is a sixtieth of a degree.
1 minute = 60 seconds (exactly).
Sources: Wikipedia: Minute; BIPM: SI Brochure, 9th edition; NIST: the second and the SI redefinition
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