It measures the official length of a metre, and in the days of Napoleon's army was the standard pace length for French Infantry units
A meter stick typically measures one meter in length.
A standard meter stick is one meter long, so there are one meter in a meter stick.
There are 100 centimeters in a meter stick, as a meter is equal to 100 centimeters.
A meter is 40 inches which is 3 feet and 4 inches (100 cm)
1 meter = 1000 millimeters 1 millimeter = 0.001 meter