For those who endeavor to be as precise as possible, it should be noted that if you are referring to the unit of time known as a second, you are talking about “the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium 133 atom,” according to the General Conference on Weights and Measurements.
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