10-2
Deci is Latin for "ten", Centi is Latin for "hundred"
You times the measurement in centi by ten or divide an measurement in milli by ten to get a centi answer, for example 42cm = 420 mm 27cl = 270ml
Yes, ten times bigger
none but ten milli's go in one centi
10-2
2.5 centimeters / 10 (deci is ten, centi is one hundred) = 0.025 decimeters
nano
"centi."Centi- as in centimetre, centilitre, even century.
these abbreviations are used to define a quantity; killo means multiply by a thousand; x 1000 , milli tends to be divide by a thousand ; / 1000. centi means a factor of ten , eg a centimeter is a tenth of a meter .
The prefix is centi-
Yes; 10 as a power of ten is 101.
You just have to memorize this stuff, at least the ones you work with all the time. It's ok to bookmark the page so you can look up the others when you run across them. See URL in related links below. There is a prefix every three powers of ten, except for 100, 10, 1/10, and 1/100. To go from one to another you use the LARD rule: LEFT ADD RIGHT DEDUCT. When moving the decimal to the LEFT you ADD to the power of ten. When going to the RIGHT you DEDUCT from the power of ten.