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Orders of magnitude (power)

Orders of magnitude (power)

Powers of 10³	equal to...	examples	orders of magnitude
1 microwatt	--	--	10^-6 W, 10^-5 W, 10^-4 W
1 milliwatt	--	--	10^-3 W, 10^-2 W, 10^-1 W
1 watt	--	horsepower = 745.7 W	1 W, 10 W, 10² W
1 kilowatt	--	--	10³ W, 10⁴ W, 10⁵ W
1 megawatt	--	--	10⁶ W, 10⁷ W, 10⁸ W
1 gigawatt	--	--	10⁹ W, 10¹⁰ W, 10¹¹ W
10¹² watts	--	--	10¹² W, 10¹³ W, 10¹⁴ W
10¹⁵ watts	--	--	10¹⁵ W, 10¹⁶ W, 10¹⁷ W
10¹⁸ watts	--	--	10¹⁸ W, 10¹⁹ W, 10²⁰ W
10²¹ watts	--	--	10²¹ W, 10²² W, 10²³ W
10²⁴ watts	--	Sun's Luminosity = 3.86 × 10²⁶W	10²⁴ W, 10²⁵ W, 10²⁶ W
10²⁷ watts	--	--	10²⁷ W, 10²⁸ W, 10²⁹ W
10³⁰ watts	--	--	10³⁰ W, 10³¹ W, 10³² W
10³³ watts	--	--	10³³ W, 10³⁴ W, 10³⁵ W
10³⁶ watts	--	--	10³⁶ W, 10³⁷ W, 10³⁸ W
10³⁹ watts	--	--	10³⁹ W, 10⁴⁰ W, 10⁴¹ W

The pages linked in the right-hand column contain lists of powers that are of the same order of magnitude (power of ten). Rows in the table represent increasing powers of a thousand.

Orders of magnitude of other quantities: energy[?], time, length, area, volume, mass

External link

Conversion Calculator for Units of POWER (http://www.ex.ac.uk/cimt/dictunit/ccpower.htm)

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