imy Prolific poster Post Number: 250	Posted on Monday, 23 August, 2004 - 08:43 pm: Hi...just wondered if anyone knew if the following is correct... 1. 10g or 0.01kg = 1 decogram... 2. 100g or 0.1kg = 1 hectogram... 3. 10cm or 0.1m = 1 decimetre... ...???...thank you...
James Veteran poster Post Number: 464	Posted on Monday, 23 August, 2004 - 08:53 pm: 2 and 3 are correct. EDIT: 10 grams is a deca gram/dekagram (Message edited by p9562 on August 23, 2004)
imy Prolific poster Post Number: 251	Posted on Monday, 23 August, 2004 - 09:08 pm: thank you very much...
Chris Bryant Poster Post Number: 11	Posted on Tuesday, 24 August, 2004 - 02:08 pm: The following are the prefixes which are used in mathematics, with the symbol used to represent them next to them: 10^1 deka- da 10^2 hecto- h 10^3 kilo- k 10^6 mega- M 10^9 giga- G 10^12 tera- T 10^15 peta- P 10^18 exa- E 10^21 zeta- Z 10^24 yotta- Y ************************** 10^-1 deci- d 10^-2 centi- c 10^-3 milli- m 10^-6 micro- (Best way to describe is it looks similar to upside down and twisted 'y'.) 10^-9 nano- n 10^-12 pico- p 10^-15 femto- f 10^-18 atto- a 10^-21 zepto- z 10^-24 yocto- y
James Veteran poster Post Number: 465	Posted on Tuesday, 24 August, 2004 - 02:24 pm: micro - greek letter mu - m