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c as a prefix means "centi" = 1/100. This is commonly used in cm = centimeters (0.01 meters). Engineers often prefer powers of 1000, though, such as kilo = 1000, mega = 1,000,000, milli = 0.001, micro = 0.000 001, etc.

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