Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Math Shortcuts - And Still Another Metric Conversion

Another play on the metric conversions is:

"King Henry Died Monday Drinking Chocolate Milk"

Km Hm Dam M Dm Cm Mm

To convert...

3.75 Hm = ______ Cm

It's 4 jumps to the right from Hm to Cm, simply move the decimal
4 jumps to the right.

3.75 Hm = 37,500. Cm

To convert...

0.59 Dm = _______ Hm

It's 3 jumps to the left from Dm to Hm, simply move the decimal
3 jumps to the left.


0.59 Dm = 0.00059 Hm

Source: The Math Forum at Drexel

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