Mathematical Question

[coldstream-1971]

hello any help please ,my son has been asked at school how many mililiters are in a litre please? i always thought it was 1million probably wrong though

THANKS

[Prudie]

A thousand

[ubasses]

1000

[pixie373]

1000

[bibblebub]

milli- prefix indicates one thousandth so there are 1000 millilitres in one litre

[frugalfred]

a thousand; plur. milia (millia) -ium, thousands; 'mille passuum', a thousand paces, a Roman mile.
Confusing, as "milli" sounds as if it should be to do with a million.

[factor-fiction]

Think of millennium (1000 years), a millipede (1000 legs-although not really) or millimetre (a thousandth of a meter)

[factor-fiction]

Perhaps the millipede example was not a good one. I'm not sure why the prefix milli (meaning a thousandth) rather than mille (thousand) is used for a millipede