Hosted by Ken Fallon on Thursday 2021-10-28 is flagged as Clean and is released under a CC-BY-SA license. Tags:giga,mega,kilo,milli,micro,nano,pico,SI, International System of Units.
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Engineering Notation
Learn this table
giga G 109 1,000,000,000
mega M 106 1,000,000
kilo k 103 1,000
1
milli m 10−3 0.001
micro μ 10−6 0.000,001
nano n 10−9 0.000,000,001
pico p 10−12 0.000,000,000,001
Suffixes are morphemes (specific groups of letters with particular semantic meaning) that are added onto the end of root words to change their meaning. Suffixes are one of the two predominant kinds of affixes—the other kind is prefixes, which come at the beginning of a root word.
Comment #3 posted on 2021-11-04T01:25:38Z by Trey
Great reminder
Thanks, Ken.
I have been using these prefixes for decades, and take them for granted. Thanks for the reminder that this is not common knowledge.
It also reminds me of a question for which I have never found a good answer. In North America, capacitance, is expressed in uF (micro Farads) or pF (pico Farads). But nF (nano Farads) is not used. Instead you will see values like 10,000 pF or 0.01 uF.
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