Deka is precisely that - a prefix that means "times 10". It can be used with all sorts of units, such as meters, hertz, ampere, etc., although usually, engineers and scientists prefer powers of 1000 (upwards: kilo, mega, giga, tera, etc., and downwards: milli, micro, nano, pico, etc.).
Deka means 10.
deka = 101
The measurement for deka is 10 times the base unit in the metric system, which is equivalent to 10 meters. The symbol for deka is da.
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1 deka gram = 10 grams
Yaju-deka was created on 1982-10-02.
Deka Beaudine was born on November 10, 1948, in USA.
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Deka refering to 10 (however, the number 10 is written as "Zehn") As in Dekagram = 10 gram or 1/100th of a kilo Rarely used, mostly in Austria when buying food for instance.
Ramesh C. Deka was born on 1948-10-01.
1 kilo- is 9 "dekas" larger than a deka-. (In other words, 10 x deka- = kilo-)