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To help compare orders of magnitude of different times this page lists times between 104 seconds and 105 seconds (2.78 hours and 27.8 hours). See also times of other orders of magnitude.

  • Shorter times
  • 10 000 seconds = 2.77 hours
  • 8 hours -- one work day[?] in most Western countries. Also most people's daily need for sleep
  • 10 hours -- one work day[?] in ancient Egypt, according to the oldest definition of an hour
  • 23 hours 56 minutes -- time for Earth's rotation around its axis
  • one day = 24 hours
  • 100 000 seconds = 27.8 hours
Longer times

Never forget where they have put their money No man knows his own voice Nutritious diet of active sympathetic benevolence Oblivion's Uncatalogued Library Oh, so patient she is, this imperturbable Nature! Old age appear as a series of personal insults and indignities One can generally tell these wholesale thieves easily enough One that goes in a nurse may come out an angel Open patches where the sun gets in and goes to sleep Original, though you have uttered it a hundred times Our brains are seventy-year clocks Painted there by reflection from our faces People in the green stage of millionism Person is really full of information, and does not abuse it Physical necessity to talk out what is in the mind Pluck survives stamina Poetry of words is quite as beautiful as that of sentences Poor creature that does not often repeat himself Power of human beings is a very strictly limited agency Pride, in the sense of contemning others Project a principle full in the face of obvious fact.html">fact! Pun is primƒ facie an insult Qu'est ce qu'il a fait? What has he done? Rapidity with which ideas grow old in our memories Rather meet three of the scowlers than one of the smilers. Religious mental disturbances Remarks like so many postage-stamps Ribbon which has strangled so many false pretensions Saddle-leather is in some respects even preferable Scientific certainty has no spring in it Second story projecting Self-assertion, such as free suffrage introduces Self-unconsciousness of genius "Settler" in the form of a fact or a revolver .

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