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The metric prefixes are powers of 10; most commonly, powers of 1000 (103) are used, that is, the power of 10 is a multiple of 3. For example, 103 = kilo, 106 = mega, 10-3 = milli, etc.

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The metric system is based off of powers of 10.

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