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'''[[Kop]]s Make Great Theft Prevention Experts''' is a [[Wikiquote:English mnemonics|mnemonic]] for prefixes from SI units. The theme of this mnemonic is ''[[NetHack]]''.
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'''[[Kop]]s Make Great Theft Prevention Experts''' is a ''[[NetHack]]''-themed [[Wikipedia:mnemonic|mnemonic]] for prefixes from [[wikipedia:International System of Units|SI units of measurement]] (commonly called the metric system).
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An SI unit, such as a metre, gram, litre, or newton, can have a prefix attached to represent a power of ten, such as 1,000. For example, a kilometre (km) is 1,000 metres, a megagram (Mg) is 1,000,000 grams, a gigalitre (GL) is 1,000,000,000 litres. This has applications in computing also: a kilobyte is varingly 1,000 or 1,024 bytes. (The number 1,024 is 2 to the 10th power; a megabyte would have 2 to the 20th power bytes.)
 
  
 
The mnemonic '''K'''ops '''M'''ake '''G'''reat '''T'''heft '''P'''revention '''E'''xperts is to memorise the order of of prefixes for every third power of ten from 3 to 18:
 
The mnemonic '''K'''ops '''M'''ake '''G'''reat '''T'''heft '''P'''revention '''E'''xperts is to memorise the order of of prefixes for every third power of ten from 3 to 18:
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|| 10<sup>3</sup> || 10<sup>6</sup> || 10<sup>9</sup> || 10<sup>12</sup> || 10<sup>15</sup> || 10<sup>18</sup>
 
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The abbreviated prefix (for example, '''k'''m for kilometer, '''M'''B for megabyte) is always uppercase, except that '''k''' for kilo- is lowercase. The mnemonic does not help here; [[Kop]]s is the only proper noun.
 
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The mnemonic is also flawed. During actual gameplay, [[Keystone Kop]]s do not appear until ''after'' [[you]] rob a [[shop]]. Thus they do not actually prevent the theft, they react to it! The [[shopkeeper]], by blocking the door, is actually the best theft prevention expert.
 
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Latest revision as of 05:56, 12 November 2023

Kops Make Great Theft Prevention Experts is a NetHack-themed mnemonic for prefixes from SI units of measurement (commonly called the metric system).

The mnemonic Kops Make Great Theft Prevention Experts is to memorise the order of of prefixes for every third power of ten from 3 to 18:

kilo- Mega- Giga- Tera- Peta- Exa-
103 106 109 1012 1015 1018
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