Number Prefixes
Channel: Thermodynamics For Everyone
Date: 2021-09-17

This video goes through number prefixes. 



Examples: 


* "Mega", 1,000,000, such as "Mm" for 1,000,000 meters or one million meters. Also represented as "10^6" meaning ten raised to the power of 6. Also sometimes written as "1E6", especially in computer codes.


* "Micro", 0.000001, such as "μm" for 0.000001 meters or one millionth of a meter. Also represented as "10^-6" meaning 1 divided by ten to the power of 6. Also sometimes written as "1E-6", especially in computer codes.


The video also goes through the interesting heritage and history of where these names for number prefixes came from.