Mathematical Power-To-Common Term Comparison (American System) - IBM 3592 Maintenance Information

Table 176: SI Base Units and Derived SI Units. Add the SI prefixes in Table 177 on page 286 to the SI
Base Units in this table to create compound terms (Derived SI Units). This table contains all the base
units, but only a sampling of derived units. (continued)
Thermodynamic Temperature
Amount of Substance
Luminous Intensity
One thousand meters
Thousandth of a second
Millionth of an ampere
Table 177: Mathematical power-to-common term comparison (American system). Use these prefixes with
the base SI units in Table 176 on page 285 to create compound algebraic and mathematical terms,
called "derived SI units."
Prefix
yotta
zetta
exa
peta
tera
giga
mega
kilo
____
milli
micro
nano
pico
femto
atto
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Mass
Time
Electric Current
Examples of Derived SI Units
Equivalent (American) Ordinal
Number
septillion
sextillion
quintillion
quadrillion
trillion
billion
million
thousand
____
thousandth
millionth
billionth
trillionth
quadrillionth
quintillionth
kilogram
second
ampere
kelvin
mole
candela
kilometer
millisecond
microampere
Mathematical Power
24
10
21
10
18
10
15
10
12
10
9
10
6
10
3
10
10
–3
10
–6
10
–9
10
–12
10
–15
10
–18
10