Deci meter comes before deka/deca meter since a deci meter is equal to 1 tenth of a meter so 10 cm while a deka/deca meter is equal to 10 meters.
Kilo Hecto Deka Meter Deci Centi Milli 3.5cm = 0.000035 km
Deka is longer.
kilo hecto deka (basic) meter liters grams deci centi milli
Move the dot 4 spaces to the left Hecto=2 Deka=.2 Meter=.02 Deci=.002 Centi=.0002
there r 1000 millimeters in a meter. just remember king henry died by drinking chocolate milk aka kilo hecto deka base (liter, gram, meter) deci centi milli
King- kilo Henry- hecto Doesn't- deka Usually- unit (gram,liter,meter) Drink- deci Chocolate- centi Milk- milli
The prefix "deka" means ten.
mili, deci, centi, hecto, kilo, deka
kilo, hecto, deka, 1 unit, deci, centi, milli, micro, nano, pico
kilo- 1,000 thousand hecto- 100 hundred deka- 10 ten gram- weight meter- distance deci- 0.1 tenth centi- 0.01 hundredth mili- 0.001 thousandth
When you are converting from a unit to the next smaller unit where the difference is a factor of 10: kilo - hecto, hecto - deka deka - unit unit - deci deci- centi centi - milli Other prefices involve steps of 1000.
they are french and originally derived from greek