Our ready reckoner will help you to calculate your own metric conversions for area, length, mass, power, temperature, pressure, velocity, volume and energy (to verify your result go to http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Reference/unitconversions.html or http://www.convert-me.com/en).
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Common usage in Australia (AS/NZS 1376:1996 Conversion Factors, p31) is that:
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