Minutes to Picoseconds (min to ps)

1 minute equals 60,000,000,000,000 picoseconds exactly.

1 minute = 60,000,000,000,000 picoseconds

How to convert minutes to picoseconds

To convert minutes to picoseconds, multiply the number of minutes by 60,000,000,000,000. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply picoseconds by 1.666666667×10⁻¹⁴ (rounded).

picoseconds = minutes × 60,000,000,000,000

Example: 10 minutes = 600,000,000,000,000 picoseconds.

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

Picosecond (ps)

ScientificCurrent unit

One trillionth of a second. Used for very fast electronics.

Pico comes from SI prefix naming and stands for 10 to the power of minus 12, so a picosecond is one trillionth of a second. The BIPM and NIST prefix tables both list it with the symbol p, and the unit is written ps. It is an exact decimal fraction with no historical variation, which is why the factor used here carries no uncertainty.

Picoseconds matter where signals and molecules move too fast for milliseconds or nanoseconds to be useful. Light in a vacuum travels about 0.30 mm in one picosecond, so a millimetre takes roughly 3.3 ps. A 1 THz electromagnetic wave has a cycle time of 1.0 ps, the unit interval of a 10 Gbit/s serial link is 100 ps, and a 3.0 GHz processor cycle lasts about 330 ps. Streak cameras can resolve events on single-digit picosecond timescales, and Wikipedia lists the lifetime of a hydronium ion in water as about 1 ps. A picosecond is one thousandth of a nanosecond.

1 picosecond = 1×10⁻¹² seconds (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Picosecond; BIPM: SI prefixes; NIST: Metric (SI) prefixes

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