Measurement and Units

Length, weight, liquids and time. Every question is a conversion, and every conversion comes down to one question you can always ask yourself.

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The one question that settles every conversion

Which of the two units is bigger? That is it. If you are swapping to a smaller unit you will need more of them, so the number gets bigger. Swapping to a bigger unit, you need fewer, so the number gets smaller.

A metre is bigger than a centimetre, so 3 m becomes the larger number 300 cm. Going the other way, 300 cm becomes the smaller number 3 m. If your answer moved the wrong way, that is the check that catches it — before you have even thought about how many zeros.

Time is the one that breaks the trick

Metric units all go up in tens, so people learn to just move the decimal point. Time does not play along: there are 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour. The bigger-or-smaller question still works perfectly, which is exactly why it is worth learning instead of the shortcut.

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