Can you name the prefixes for the International System of units?

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Metric System (SI) prefixes Quiz

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Published: September 3rd, 2008
Category: Science
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Tags: Numbers Quizzes, Physics Quizzes, Chemistry Quizzes, system, unit, symbol, international, prefix, factor, Metric System, International System

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	Michael:	Sep 3rd, 2008 at 07:04 GMT	13 points
	deca and deka are proper usage for da yet deca isn't registering.

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	Bray:	Nov 16th, 2008 at 17:43 GMT	-4 points
	Darn. First try 11. I've never heard of zepto, yocto, deka, hecto, exa, peta. Should've got pico, deci and femto.

	Lulu:	Dec 4th, 2008 at 19:44 GMT	7 points
	How did I miss kilo?

	Dustfinger:	Dec 6th, 2008 at 12:35 GMT	5 points
	Someone Should consider a bonus for Myria which is ten- thousand

	jkd:	Feb 4th, 2009 at 17:21 GMT	15 points
	The two tiniest ones make me think of long-lost members of the Marx Brothers.

	Rat:	Mar 4th, 2009 at 01:22 GMT	2 points
	Always get lost at the extremes and have to try zetto, zecto, zotto, and so on. Got there in the end. I'm astounded that more people got femto than peta. Does no one deal with petabytes of data?

	DoubleUnderscore:	Mar 24th, 2009 at 17:17 GMT	6 points
	I deal with femto more than peta, but then I'm a biology student working with tiny little concentrations of stuff.

	Kenneth:	Apr 18th, 2009 at 02:56 GMT	3 points
	I think for a little bit of an extra challenge, the abbreviations should be removed. Good quiz nonetheless.

	Abhit:	May 6th, 2009 at 01:24 GMT	4 points
	Towards the end, the more difficult ones all sound like Marx brothers' names.

	andrew430:	Jun 15th, 2009 at 22:39 GMT	0 points
	17/20, although I was about to give up with 14 before I noticed the symbols were also given, at which point I remembered femto, and somehow pulled out atto and zetta while playing around with various things I though could be answers.

	Onno:	Jun 22nd, 2009 at 17:51 GMT	5 points
	Nice one, but why isn't this in Science like the other SI quiz?

	mtc:	Dec 22nd, 2009 at 01:29 GMT	3 points
	I'd say most people have never heard of the prefixes beyond 10^9 and 10^-9

	ppirilla:	Jan 26th, 2010 at 18:20 GMT	1 point
	this quiz should probably be under science

	corndog:	Mar 3rd, 2010 at 05:53 GMT	-1 points
	You should accept zeta, methinks. Good quiz, though!

	gstring:	Aug 22nd, 2010 at 05:32 GMT	3 points
	Zorro...Zeppo...zero...Zippo...never mind.

	singin185:	Jan 24th, 2011 at 02:48 GMT	1 point
	No Jiggawatts?

	TWW2:	Oct 24th, 2011 at 08:26 GMT	2 points
	Technically there are since Jiggawatts was just a common mispronunciation of Gigawatts.