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Well, if the things you're measuring are the size of books or pencils, centimeters will give you more accurate readings. A centimeter is just a 1/100th of a meter. With the meter as a base unit, we use different prefixes to talk about measuring things of different sizes. For example: "milli-" for bullets and drill bits; "centi-" for boxes and walking sticks; "kilo-"for distances between towns.

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