Answer:
Its measures are based on divisions that are powers of ten.
Explanation:
The metric system used by scientists, doctors and mathematicians is the most used worldwide, including the official one in Brazil. This system was created at the time of the Inconfidência Mineira, by French scientists who wanted a system of less arbitrary measures, and that could not be lost. To choose this unit of length, they measured the distance from the Equator to the North Pole. They divided that distance by 10,000,000 and marked that distance on a bar. This unit, they called the metro.
In this system, the units are divided into tenths, hundredths and thousandths, adding the prefixes deci, centi and milli to the meter. They are smaller than the meter by 10, 100 and 1000 times, respectively.
Likewise, the multiples that are 10, 100 and 1000 times greater than the fundamental unit, the meter, were named after the addition of the prefix deca, hecto and kilo.
