Important Units

Published on January 13, 2022

This is a table of important units you might use in your app, for example, storage units in file management and timing units in timing. Done for you already so you can just take this as a reference. 🙂

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Storage Units

1 byte (B) 1 byte 1

1 kilobyte (KB) 1024 bytes 1 ✕ 1,024

1 megabyte (MB) 1,048,576 bytes 1 ✕ 1,024 ✕ 1,024

1 gigabyte (GB) 1,073,741,824 bytes 1 ✕ 1,024 ✕ 1,024 ✕ 1,024

1 terabyte (TB) 1,099,511,627,776 bytes 1 ✕ 1,024 ✕ 1,024 ✕ 1,024 ✕ 1,024

1 petabyte (PB) 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes 1 ✕ 1,024 ✕ 1,024 ✕ 1,024 ✕ 1,024 ✕ 1,024

Timing Units

1 millisecond (ms) 1 millisecond 1

1 second (s) 1,000 milliseconds 1 ✕ 1,000

1 minute (min) 60,000 milliseconds 1 ✕ 1,000 ✕ 60

1 hour (h) 3,600,000 milliseconds 1 ✕ 1,000 ✕ 60 ✕ 60

1 day (d) 86,400,000 milliseconds 1 ✕ 1,000 ✕ 60 ✕ 60 ✕ 24

1 week (w) 604,800,000 milliseconds 1 ✕ 1,000 ✕ 60 ✕ 60 ✕ 24 ✕ 7

1 month (m) 2,628,000,000 milliseconds 1 ✕ 1,000 ✕ 60 ✕ 60 ✕ 24 ✕ 7 ✕ 365 ÷ 12

1 year (y) 31,536,000,000 milliseconds 1 ✕ 1,000 ✕ 60 ✕ 60 ✕ 24 ✕ 7 ✕ 365

Temperature Units

1 Celsius (°C) 1 Celsius 1

1 Fahrenheit (°F) -17.2222... Celsius (1 °F − 32) 5/9

1 Kelvin (°K) -272.15 Celsius 1 °K − 273.15

Numbers

1 thousand (K) 1,000 1 ✕ 1,000

1 million (M) 1,000,000 1 ✕ 1,000 ✕ 1,000

1 billion (B) 1,000,000,000 1 ✕ 1,000 ✕ 1,000 ✕ 1,000

1 trillion (T) 1,000,000,000,000 1 ✕ 1,000 ✕ 1,000 ✕ 1,000 ✕ 1,000