A handy trick for remembering the basic metric prefixes is the mnemonic “King Henry Died Until Drinking Chocolate Milk,” (or, if you prefer, “King Henry Doesn’t Usually Drink Chocolate Milk”).

See below:
10 km × 105 cm/km =10 km × 100,000 cm/km == 1,000,000 cm. There are 1,000,000 centimeters in our 10 kilometer race.

How do I memorize metric conversion tables?

The mnemonic “King Henry Died Drinking Chocolate Milk” gives students a funny, memorable way to keep the prefixes straight. The song includes an explanation of the following prefixes: kilo, hecto, deca, deci, centi, and milli.

How do you convert units easily?

Summary: You can convert units easily and accurately with one simple rule: just multiply the old measurement by a carefully chosen form of the number 1.

What is the conversion table?

Definition of conversion table. : a table of equivalents for changing units of measure or weight into other units.