10 centimeters are 1 decimeter and that is 0.1 meter.
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There are ten millimeters in a centimeter, named for the number (in greek) of them that it takes to make a Meter. Millimeters are one-thousandth of a Meter.
Centi- is the prefix for hundredth and milli- is the prefix for thousandths. A centimeter is one hundredth of a meter. A millimeter is one thousandths of a meter. There are ten millimeters in one centimeter and there are one hundred centimeters in a meter.
One square meter is one meter long by one meter wide, ie; two dimensional. One cubic meter is one meter long by one meter wide by one meter high, ie; three dimensional. So no, one square meter is not the same as one cubic meter.
A decimeter is a unit of length equal to one-tenth of a meter. Visually, it is about the length of an adult's index finger, roughly 10 centimeters long. It is commonly used to measure smaller lengths in everyday situations.
We have no fractions in measuring the length.10 centimeters are 1 decimeter and that is 0.1 meter.Never use the word fraction here. Go metric!