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To help compare orders of magnitude of different times this page lists times between 10² seconds (a centosecond) and 10³ seconds (100 seconds and 1000 seconds). See also times of other orders of magnitude.

• times shorter than 100 seconds
• 100 seconds – 1 minute 40 seconds, or 1.666... minutes
• 102 seconds – duration of the Minute Waltz of Frédéric Chopin, as recorded by Dinu Lipatti
• 120 - 180 seconds = 2 – 3 minutes – approximate time for cooking instant noodles or for boiling an egg
• 158 seconds = 2 minutes, 38 seconds – the longest time a stuntman has withstood being set on fire without oxygen.
• 210 seconds = 3 minutes and 30 seconds – historic average elapsed time for a commercial broadcasting break period.
• 273 seconds – nominal duration of 4'33" by John Cage
• 315 seconds = 5.25 minutes (approximately 10⁻⁵ years) after the Big Bang – first nuclei form
• 500 seconds = 8.333... minutes – approximate time it takes light to travel between earth and the sun
• 660 seconds = 11 minutes – duration of a 1000-foot reel of 35mm motion picture film
• 674.784 seconds = amount by which the average year in the Julian calendar is longer than Earth's tropical year
• 930 seconds (approximately 15.5 minutes), may vary by performance, duration of the Brandenburg Concerto #4 by Johann Sebastian Bach
• 1000 seconds – approximately 16.7 minutes

[edit] Half lives

• 102 seconds – half-life of nobelium-253
• 886 seconds (approximately 14.8 minutes) – half-life of a free neutron

• times longer than 1000 seconds

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