"The Numbers Guy Blog Radiation Numbers in Damaged Japan Plant Becquerels, grays and sieverts all are internationally accepted units that quantify different aspects of radiation, while micro- and nano- are prefixes denoting one-millionth and one-billionth, respectively."
"Nowadays the observatory has cesium and hydrogen maser clocks, instruments that deviate no more than one-billionth of a second a day."
"Google uses perhaps one-billionth of Watson's resources, or less, to handle each query."