{"id":9611,"key":"Powers_of_10","title":"Powers of 10","latest":{"id":1207912,"timestamp":"2025-11-27T23:07:53Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"Below are names, symbols and examples for powers of ten (AKA powers of 10, factors of ten) at steps of 10³ pertaining to the SI prefixes.\n\n{| class=wikitable\n! Multiplication Factor\n! 10 E\n! Prefix\n! Symbol\n! Examples at order of magnitude for Length (m)\n! Examples at order of magnitude for Force (N)\n! Examples at order of magnitude for Power (W)\n! Others\n|-\n| 1,000,000,000,000,000,000\n| 18\n| exa\n| E\n| Diameter of a typical globular cluster\n|\n|\n|\n|-\n| 1,000,000,000,000,000\n| 15\n| peta\n| P\n| 1/10 light-year\n|\n| Estimated heat flux transported by the Gulf Stream\n|\n|-\n| 1,000,000,000,000\n| 12\n| tera\n| T\n| Orbital distance of Saturn from Sun\n|\n| Average electrical power for World\n|\n|-\n| 1,000,000,000\n| 9\n| giga\n| G\n| Diameter of the Sun\n|\n| Average nuclear power plant\n|\n|-\n| 1,000,000\n| 6\n| mega\n| M\n| Radius of Pluto\n|\n| [[Solar power]] plant\n|\n|-\n| 1,000\n| 3\n| kilo\n| k\n| Longest span of Golden Gate Bridge (1.2 km)\n|\n| Full sun on 1 m<sup>2</sup>\n|\n|-\n| 1\n| 0\n|\n|\n| 3.28 feet\n|\n| Small LED flashlight\n|\n|-\n| 0.001\n| -3\n| milli\n| m\n| 12 point font period\n|\n| Line test for a telephone\n|\n|-\n| 0.000001\n| -6\n| micro\n| μ\n| diameter of small bacterium [micron]\n|\n| approximate consumption of a quartz wristwatch\n|\n|-\n| 0.000000001\n| -9\n| nano\n| n\n| diameter of Carbon nanotube (radius of DNA helix)\n|\n| output of a typical tissue cell\n|\n|-\n| 0.000000000001\n| -12\n| pico\n| p\n| wavelength of gamma rays\n|\n| average power consumption of a human cell\n|\n|-\n| 0.000000000000001\n| -15\n| femto\n| f\n| size of a proton\n|\n|\n|\n|-\n| 0.000000000000000001\n| -18\n| atto\n| a\n| upper limit for the size of quarks and electrons\n|\n| output of a myosin muscle motor\n|\n|}\n\n== External links ==\n\n* [[Wikipedia:Powers of 10]]\n\n{{Video\n| video = 0fKBhvDjuy0\n| title = Powers of Ten™ (1977)\n| description = Powers of Ten takes us on an adventure in magnitudes. Starting at a picnic by the lakeside in Chicago, this famous film transports us to the outer edges of the universe. Every ten seconds we view the starting point from ten times farther out until our own galaxy is visible only as a speck of light among many others. Returning to Earth with breathtaking speed, we move inward- into the hand of the sleeping picnicker- with ten times more magnification every ten seconds. Our journey ends inside a proton of a carbon atom within a DNA molecule in a white blood cell.\n| authors = IBM\n}}\n\n{{Video|7GDC3u8k02c}}\n\n* [http://web.archive.org/web/20210128122227/https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html Java]\n* [http://web.archive.org/web/20131229045451/http://learn.genetics.utah.edu:80/content/begin/cells/scale/ Cell Size and Scaling]\n* [https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/525347/ More fun]\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n}}\n\n[[Category:Mathematics]]\n[[Category:Knowledge videos]]"}