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For the basic prefices you could try the mnemonic:

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for Kilo, Hecto, Deka, Base, Deci, Centi, Milli.

Base stands for metre, gram, litre etc, the basic unit.

There are other variations.

This only goes from 103 to 10-3 in multiples of 1/10. There are others that go from Yotta (1024) to the Base in steps of 10-3, and from the base to Yocto (10-24) but these are rather more difficult to remember, partly because of the letters involved and partly because the same letters occur in both sequences - much in the same way that deka and deci do above.

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