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That is the benefit of the International SI units of measurement, being base 10 one can convert to a measurement appropriate to what you are doing by simply multiplying or dividing by 10 - thus while the standard measurement is the meter, kilometers, decimeters and centimeters are all the SAME thing just expressed as a different magnitude

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Q: Why do decimeters exist when we use centimeters instead?
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