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Is 8,000,000,000 nanoseconds as long as a Basketball game?

It's about one-three-hundred-fiftieth as long as a Basketball game
The length of a Basketball game is about 2,880,000,000,000 nanoseconds.
(NBA regulation; playing time only)
Per National Basketball Association rules , a basketball game (without an overtime) consists of four periods of 720,000,000,000 nanoseconds each, for a total of 2,880,000,000,000 nanoseconds of playing time. The first basketball game, played in a Springfield Massachusetts YMCA, was played in 1,800,000,000,000 nanoseconds and ended with a score of 1-0.
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