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by refulgentis 1025 days ago
> ...administratium causes one reaction to take over four days to complete when it would have normally occurred in less than a second.

Let x = administartium slowdown effect = 4 days / 1 second

x = 4 days * 24 hours / day

x = 96 hours * 60 minutes / hour

x = 5760 minutes * 60 seconds / minute

x = 345600 seconds

Wrote this out to also convince myself, I am 35, did physics for 3 years in undergrad, and am apparently still bamboozled by orders of magnitude regularly. Completely unintuitive!

In fact, lemme do it in reverse, I'm shocked.

Given x = slowdown factor = 100B = 100_000_000_000

x = 100_000_000_000 seconds / (60 seconds / minute)

x = 1_666_666_666 / (60 minutes / hour)

x = 27_777_777 hours / 24 hours / day

x = 1_157_407 days / 365 days / year

x = 3,170 years!

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Wow. Such a better illustration to compare 4 days to 3170 years than comparing 2.73 nanoseconds to a femtosecond. It makes me realize how linear my in-the-moment imagination of nano to femto is.
Or a day to a thousand years, give or take a little.
What's the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire?

1 million seconds == 11.57 days

1 billion seconds == 31.71 years