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then explain centipedes

1/100th of a pede

Pedes must be crazy, a million legs like that

It is because you are confusing an etymology (in 'centenary', 'centennial', 'centigrade'...) with a prefixing (in 'centimeter', 'centigram', 'centiliter'...).

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