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 Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 4:41 am Post subject: Prefixes Use with SI units |
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Gaga is 1 000 000 000 simple G
Mega is 1 000 000 m
kilo is 1 000 K
dec is 0.1 d
milli is 0.001 m
mico is 0.000 001 um
nano is 0.000 000 001 n
pico is 0.000 000 000 001 p
femto is 0.000 000 000 000 001 f
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redset
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| Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 7:47 pm Post subject: |
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Actually it's giga, deci and micro (μ), no capitals for the names but capitalised symbols for mega (M) and up!
More info here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_prefix |
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AnaMilena
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| Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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| redset wrote: |
| Actually it's giga |
You know, this girl keeps on being kind of trendy. If not, ask YouTube! 
Anyway...
Thanks for the info! I wish there were any way to learn it by heart by means of mnemonics.
Thank you!!
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