One hundredth of a gram is 10 milligrams.
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0.01 g
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Kilogram
Well, within the Metric system, it's always by ten. So, 1 decigram is equals one gram, and one gram equals a decagram?Do the math?:)
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One one-hundredth of a gram is 1/100g or 0.01g. That is, if you divided a gram into 100 equal pieces, each one of the pieces is 0.01g
"milli" in the metric system means "one thousandth" . So 1 milligram means one thousandth of a gram. Your 2 milligrams is best left in that form but it is also equal to "one five-hundredth of a gram".
The common prefix for one hundredth is centi. For example, one hundredth of a metre is one centimetre. One hundredth of a gram is one centigram.
A centigram.
10 milligrams
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0.01 g
It is one centimeter
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Yes, a centimeter is on-hundredth of a meter. Likewise, a centigram is one-hundredth of a gram, and a centiliter is one hundredth of a liter. Centipedes, figuratively, have a hundred legs. And so on.
100 grams. That is what "centi" means: 100. * * * * * Centi may mean 100 but in this context, it means one hundredth! So, 1 centigram = 0.01 gram (or one hundredth of a gram).