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Metric Units Conversion Calculator

Convert Metric Units


Answer:
= 1,000,000 k

Multiply by 1,000,000
for quick conversions

giga × 1,000,000 = kilo

Calculator Use

Convert among units for any base unit of measure such as gram or meter or second or byte, etc. In practice, with say, working with meters, then your base unit is "meters" and units you use might be kilometers, decameters, meters, centimeters, or millimeters, to name a few. Prefixes available, in the international system of units used for scientific measurements, from lowest to highest, run from quecto 10-30 to quetta 1030.

For example, if you want to convert from meters to micrometers you would convert from "base" to micro, (meters to micrometers). Likewise, if you want to convert from grams to micrograms or feet to microfeet you would still do a conversion from base unit to micro. Similarly, converting from kilograms to nanograms you just need to convert from kilo to nano.

You can ignore your base unit and just do your conversion. For example, convert 5 kilowatts to milliwatts: Enter 5 as the value to convert then convert from kilo to milli to get the answer 5,000,000. 5 kilowatts equals 5,000,000 milliwatts.

Units, symbols and conversion values
used in this metric calculator
Factor
Prefix
Symbol
Number
Name
1030
quetta
Q
1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000
nonillion
1027
ronna
R
1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000
octillion
1024
yotta
Y
1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000
septillion
1021
zetta
Z
1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000
sextillion
1018
exa
E
1 000 000 000 000 000 000
quintillion
1015
peta
P
1 000 000 000 000 000
quadrillion
1012
tera
T
1 000 000 000 000
trillion
109
giga
G
1 000 000 000
billion
106
mega
M
1 000 000
million
103
kilo
k
1 000
thousand
102
hecto
h
1 00
hundred
101
deca
da
1 0
ten
100
none
none
1 (base unit)
one
10−1
deci
d
0.1
tenth
10−2
centi
c
0.01
hundreth
10−3
milli
m
0.001
thousandth
10−6
micro
µ
0.000 001
millionth
10−9
nano
n
0.000 000 001
billionth
10−12
pico
p
0.000 000 000 001
trillionth
10−15
femto
f
0.000 000 000 000 001
quadrillionth
10−18
atto
a
0.000 000 000 000 000 001
quintillionth
10−21
zepto
z
0.000 000 000 000 000 000 001
sextillionth
10−24
yocto
y
0.000 000 000 000 000 000 000 001
septillionth
10−27
ronto
r
0.000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 001
octillionth
10−30
quecto
q
0.000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 001
nonillionth

References/ Further Reading

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) - Metric (SI) Prefixes

Wikipedia for The International System of Units and SI Prefixes.

 

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Last updated: August 21, 2023

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