| Length |
| assume unit length = 1.66 x 10-13 meters |
Error Class | Size | meters | km | AU 1.5 x 108 km | light year 9.46 x 1012 km | approximate equivalent |
| 0 | 1 | 1.7 x 10-13 | | | | 170 atomic nuclei (ca. 10-15 m) |
| 1 | 3.5 x 104 | 5.8 x 10-9 | | | | 17 bp of B DNA (3.4 x 10-10 m/bp) |
| 2 | 6.2 x 108 | 1.0 x 10-4 | | | | thickness of a sheet of paper |
| 3 | 7.2 x 1012 | 1.2 | | | | |
| 4 | 6.3 x 1016 | 1.1 x 104 | 11 | | | a quarter of a Marathon |
| 5 | 4.4 x 1020 | 7.3 x 107 | 7.3 x 104 | | | 1.8 times around Earth's equator (4.0 x 107 m) |
| 6 | 2.6 x 1024 | 4.3 x 1011 | 4.3 x 108 | 2.9 | | 1.9 x the Mars-Sun distance (1.52 AU); ca. orbit of asteroid 16 Psyche |
| 7 | 1.3 x 1028 | 2.2 x 1015 | 2.2 x 1012 | 1.4 x 104 | 2.3 x 10-1 | 120 times the distance to the heliopause (ca. 115 AU) |
| 8 | 5.7 x 1031 | 9.5 x 1018 | | | 1.0 x 103 | 4% of the distance from Earth to the center of our galaxy (2.6 x 104 ly) |
| 9 | 2.2 x 1035 | 3.6 x 1022 | | | 3.9 x 106 | 6% of the distance to the Virgo cluster (ca. 6 x 107 ly) |
| 10 | 7.8 x 1038 | 1.5 x 1026 | | | 1.37 x 1010 | the observable universe |
| Mass |
| assume unit mass = 3 x 1011 kg |
Error Class | Size | kg | circa: |
| 0 | 1 | 2.6 x 1011 | mass of humanity |
| 1 | 3.5 x 104 | 9.0 x 1015 | small asteroid (e.g., Eros, 7 x 1015 kg) |
| 2 | 6.2 x 108 | 1.6 x 1020 | largest asteroids (Ceres, Pallas, Vesta) |
| 3 | 7.2 x 1012 | 1.8 x 1024 | Earth mass (6 x 1024 kg) |
| 4 | 6.3 x 1016 | 1.6 x 1028 | 10 Jupiter mass (2 x 1027 kg) |
| 5 | 4.4 x 1020 | 1.1 x 1032 | 50 Solar mass (2 x 1030 kg); ca. Jeans' mass (isothermal case) |
| 6 | 2.6 x 1024 | 6.7 x 1035 | giant star cluster (1 x 106 to 1 x 107 Solar mass) |
| 7 | 1.3 x 1028 | 3.3 x 1039 | central mass of quasar (1 x 108 to 1 x 109 Solar mass) |
| 8 | 5.7 x 1031 | 1.5 x 1043 | 75 Milky Way mass (2 x 1041 kg); a galaxy cluster |
| 9 | 2.2 x 1035 | 5.7 x 1046 | |
| 10 | 7.8 x 1038 | 2.0 x 1050 | luminous matter in the observable Universe (1 x 1076 to 1 x 1078 protons) |