Cents (India) to Square Meters (cent to m²)
1 cent (India) equals 40.46856422 square meters (rounded).
How to convert cents (India) to square meters
To convert cents (India) to square meters, multiply the number of cents (India) by 40.46856422. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply square meters by 0.02471053815 (rounded).
square meters = cents (India) × 40.46856422
Example: 10 cents (India) = 404.6856422 square meters.
About these units
Cent (India) (cent)
435.6 square feet (40.47 m²), one hundredth of an acre. Used for land in southern India, including Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka; Bangladesh and West Bengal call it a decimal.
Real estate advertisements in Kerala and Tamil Nadu often price plots by the cent, a name that here means one hundredth of an acre and has no connection with money. The area works out to 435.6 square feet, 48.4 square yards or about 40.47 square metres, so a typical house plot of five or ten cents is quite small by comparison with an acre.
Because the cent is defined directly from the acre, it carries no local variation in size, unlike many older Indian land units. What varies is where it is used. Wikipedia lists parts of southern India, including Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, where it still appears in property deals and news reports. In West Bengal and Bangladesh the same one-hundredth of an acre is called a decimal.
The cent sits beside other decimal-style subdivisions of the acre. Elsewhere in India land is counted in gunthas (40 to an acre), and in Pakistan and the north in marlas and kanals (160 and 8 to an acre). A cent is a little under half the size of a guntha, which is about 101 square metres.
1 cent (India) = 40.46856422 square meters (approximately).
Sources: Wikipedia: Cent (area); Wikipedia: Guntha
Square Meter (m²)
The SI unit of area: a square one meter on each side. Used for floor areas and property sizes in most of the world.
Squaring the meter was built into the metric system from the start. The French law of 18 Germinal, Year III (7 April 1795) defined the are, the land unit that gave the hectare its name, as exactly 100 square meters, so the square meter was already the foundation of metric land measure. Nobody is credited with inventing it as a separate unit. It is simply the area of a square one meter on each side, and any SI prefix that works for the meter works for it, with the prefix squared along with the unit.
That squaring catches people out: a square kilometer is one million square meters, not one thousand. Since 1983 the meter has been defined through the speed of light, so the square meter is tied to a constant of nature as well as to the second. A hectare, about the area of Trafalgar Square in London, is 10,000 square meters. In everyday terms one square meter is about 10.76 square feet. Unicode has a compatibility character for it, but the recommended way to write it is the plain superscript two: m².
The square meter is the reference unit for area on this site.
Sources: Wikipedia: Square metre; Wikipedia: Are (unit); NIST: the meter and the SI redefinition
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