Minutes to Indictions (min to indiction)

1 minute equals 1.26754954×10⁻⁷ indictions (rounded).

1 minute = 1.26754954×10⁻⁷ indictions

How to convert minutes to indictions

To convert minutes to indictions, multiply the number of minutes by 1.26754954×10⁻⁷. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply indictions by 7,889,238.

indictions = minutes × 1.26754954×10⁻⁷

Example: 10 minutes = 0.00000126754954 indictions.

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

Minute (min)

Metric (SI)Current unit

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

Indiction (indiction)

Ancient RomanHistorical unit (no longer in standard use)

A 15-year tax cycle introduced under the Roman Empire and used to date documents in the Byzantine and medieval worlds.

Indictions began as periodic reassessments of land or poll taxes in the Roman Empire, and the Latin indictio means an imposition or levy. Evidence exists for a 15-year cycle across the empire, a 14-year cycle in Roman Egypt, and a five-year cycle. Tax changes and arrears remissions tended to fall at the start of a cycle, with examples recorded under Nero in 58 AD and Hadrian in 118 AD.

Constantine is credited with turning the 15-year cycle into a dating system in 312 AD, and Egypt used it by 314 AD, though sources disagree on the first year, with one Coptic document implying 297 to 298. Justinian required indictions in dated documents in 537 AD. The year began on 23 September in the early Eastern Empire, later moving to 1 September, while Bede gives 24 September for the West and papal practice started on 25 December or 1 January. Because the length is a convention of 15 years, the figure used here is 15 Gregorian years, about 473.4 million seconds. The cycle also forms part of the 7,980-year Julian Period.

1 indiction = 473,354,280 seconds (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Indiction

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