What are milliseconds?
A millisecond is a thousandth (1/1000) of a second. There are 86,400,000 (24x60x60x10x10x10) milliseconds in one day.
To help compare orders of magnitude of different times, this page lists times:
• 1 millisecond (1 ms) – 1000 cycles in 1 frequency 1 kHz
• 4 milliseconds – typical average seek time for a 7200 rpm hard disk
• 8 milliseconds – 1/125 of a second, a standard camera shutter speed
• 100 milliseconds – approx. time for single packet transmission over the Internet
• 400 milliseconds – approx. time for a typical Internet transaction
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