Solidity - Ether

In Solidity, We have literal numbers that can be suffixed with units. There are different types of units

• Ether Units
• Time Units

Ether or Currency Units

Ether Units are currency denominations of an Ether unit. The number can be suffixed with Ether Units for denominations of Ether units.

• Wei
• Finney
• szabo
• ether

The smallest Unit is wei which is equal to 1 x 10 power 12. the base unit is Etheṛ

Let’s a denomination for each 1 Ether unit.

Here is an example

// true condition
if(1 wei == 1){
    // true code
}

Time Units

In Solidity, time-based data are represented in Time Units. The lowest unit is 1 Second.

Numbers are suffixed with the below types to represent time

• seconds

• minutes

• hours

• days

• weeks

• years