TBLEN10004: Metric prefixes / Prefixes or the SI-System (= Système international d’unités) / Präfixe für das Internationale Einheitensystem

The prefixes follow a decimal pattern.

SI prefixes
Prefix	Symbol	Value	Extra
Quetta	Q	10³⁰	Quintillion
Ronna	R	10²⁷	Quadrillliarde
Yotta	Y	10²⁴	Quadrillion
Zetta	Z	10²¹	Trilliarde
Exa	E	10¹⁸	Trillion
Peta	P	10¹⁵	Billiarde
Tera	T	10¹²	Billion
Giga	G	10⁹	Milliarde
Mega	M	10⁶	Million
Kilo	K or k	10³	Tausend
Hekto	h	10²	Hundert
Deka	da	10¹	Zehn
-	-	1	Eins
Dezi	d	10^-1	Zehntel
Zenti	c	10^-2	Hunderstel
Milli	m	10^-3	Tausendstel
Mikro	µ	10^-6	Millionstel
Nano	n	10^-9	Milliardstel
Piko	p	10^-12	Billionstel
Femto	f	10^-15	Billiardstel
Atto	a	10^-18	Trillionstel
Zepto	z	10^-21	Trilliardstel
Yokto	y	10^-24	Quadrillionstel
Ronto	r	10^-27	Quadrilliardstel
Quekto	q	10^-30	Quintillionstel

Please notice the following inconsistencies:

Values smaller than 1 have a lowercase character and multiples have a highercase character. There are 3 exception here: Deka (da), Hekto (h) and Kilo (k). This is historical.

The high values end on "a" the low values end on "o".

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Author: Wim Peeters - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG

Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience, including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.

Latest update: 09/01/2023 | Comment: