In a normal adult from the left shoulder to the right hand stretched out. A little longer than a yard.
Some think of it as around the waist of a large man.
Half the size of a Tall person.
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There are 100 centimetres in one metre. Therefore, one square metre is equal to 1002 = 10000 square centimetres.
A millimetre is one tenth the size of a centemetre and one thousandth of a metre and a metre is that long.
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10. A centimetre is one-hundredth of a metre whila decimetre is one-tenth of a metre.
The SI system uses prefixes that go up and down in order of thousandths. So to start, one metre, one thousandth of a metre is a millimetre; one thousandth of a millimetre ( one millionth of a metre) is a micrometre; one thousandth of a micrometre ( one billionth of a metre) is a nanometre. The symbol for nanometre is "nm", 'n' nano, 'm' metre, both lowercase. One thousand metres is a kilometre, one thousand kilometres is a megametre, etc.