Centimetre gets its name from the Latin word for 100, being one-hundredth of a metre.
Cf "milli", one thousandth and "deci", one-tenth.
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There are 100 centimeters in a meter.
There are 100 centimeters in a meter.
100 cm in a meter
100 centimeters.
Since a meter is 100 centimeters, a square meter is 10,000 (100 squared) square centimeters.