Converting Units - prefixes

the prefixes tell you how much bigger or smaller a unit is than the base unit e.g. one KILOmetre is one thousand metres

tera (T)

10¹²

giga (G)

10⁹

mega (M)

1,000,000 (10⁶)

kilo (k)

1000

deci (d)

0.1

centi (c)

0.01

milli (m)

0.001

micro (μ)

0.000001 (10^-6)

nano (n)

10^-9

to get from a bigger unit to a smaller unit,

…you multiply the conversion factor

to get from a smaller unit to a bigger unit,

…you divide by the conversion factor