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how long is 1 million seconds?

I'm not good at math so please answer this for me. I want to know how many minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years is in 1 million seconds. Reason? I am watching a recording of the program that aired last night on the Science channel called The 6 Billion Dollar Experiment. These scientists are trying to recreate the exact moment precisely after the big bang. They are looking deep into space with images from the hubble telescope. They said the exposed the telescope for 1 million seconds and that was the longest exposure ever. They said they have been able to look back as far as 11 billion years ago. Isn't science cool?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    1 000 000 seconds are not as long as you may think, but then time is relative to what you are doing or what is being done to you.

    First you change seconds to minutes:

    1 000 000 divided by 60 = 1 6666 min. 40 sec.

    Now change minutes to hours:

    1 6666 divided by 60 = 277 hrs. 46 min.

    Then change hours to days:

    277 divided by 24 = 11 days. 13 hrs.

    Lastly change days to weeks:

    11 divided by 7 = 1 wk. 4 days.

    Therefore 1000 000 seconds will be the same as:

    1 week 4 days 13 hours 46 minutes 40 seconds

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    1 Million Seconds

  • Ego
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    11 1/2 days

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    answer: 11days, 13hours, 46 min, and 40 sec

    11 x 24= 264 days +13=277

    277 x 60=16620mins + 46= 16666

    16666 x 60= 999960 + 40= 1,000,000

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  • 1 decade ago

    11 days, 13 hours, 46 minutes, and 40 seconds....

    1,000,000 / 86400 (secs per day) is 11 with 49600 secs leftover. So 11 days.

    49600 / 3600 (secs per hour) is 13 with 2800 leftover. so 13 hours

    2800 / 60 (secs per min) is 46 with 40 leftover. so 46 minutes and 40 seconds.

    with the windows calculator, you can use the MOD button to easily get the leftover part. In other words, 1000000 MOD 86400 is 49600.

  • 5 years ago

    You've already received the 'best answer' -- mathematically speaking -- but your question was more. There is a thing we call the "visible universe", and it has a limit. We can only look so far back. We can get finer and finer resolution on the images we get, but there comes a point where we simply cannot see past the radiation of the "Big Bang".

  • 1 decade ago

    1,000,000/60 = minutes (60 seconds per minute)

    1,666.67 minutes.

    1,000,000/3600 = hours (60 seconds x 60 minutes per hour)

    277.78 hours.

    1,000,000/86400 = days (60 x 60 x 24 hours per day)

    11.574 days

    1,000,000/604,800= weeks (60x60x24x7 days per week)

    1.653 weeks

    *1,000,000/2,419,200 = months (approximate) ( 60x60x24x7x4 weeks per month* some months have more tahn 4 weeks)

    .413 months*

    1,000,000/31,449,600= year (60x60x24x7x52 weeks per year)

    .03179 years

    - - -

    As one unit it is not even a whole month. It is 1 week, 4days, 13hours, 46 minutes and 40 seconds

  • 1 decade ago

    Science is indeed cool.

    Consider that a second is lesser a unit than minutes which means that the number of seconds should be divided to find the minutes. Use conversion factors.

    60 seconds : 1 minute

    1*10^6 seconds * 1minute/60seconds = 1.6*10^4minutes

    60 minutes : 1 hour

    1.6*10^4 minutes * 1hour/60minutes = 2.8*10^2hours

    Continue the process.

    24hours : 1day, 7days : 1week, 52weeks : 1year

    2.8*10^2hours * 1day/24hours * 1week/7days * 1year/52weeks = 0.0317969years approximately.

    Which means that

    1 million seconds is approximately 0.0317969years

    11billion = 11 * 10^9

    11*10^9 years * 10^6seconds/0.0317969years = 3.46*10^17 seconds, that is quite a few 0s(the estimation is off by a bit), but you can enter it into a calculator and check.

  • 1 decade ago

    16,666 minutes; 277.77 hours, 11.57 days

    Source: my husband

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    1,000,000 seconds is approximately 11574 days.

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