3 centimeters in kilometers

Result

The conversion result is: 3 centimeters is equivalent to 3e-05 kilometers.[1]

Conversion formula
How to convert 3 centimeters to kilometers?

We know (by definition) that: 1 cm = 1e-05 km.

We can set up a proportion to solve for the number of kilometers.

1 cm / 3 cm = 1e-05 km / x km

Now, we cross multiply to solve for our unknown x:

x km = (3 cm / 1 cm) * 1e-05 km → x km = 3.0000000000000004e-05 km

Conclusion:

3 cm = 3.0000000000000004e-05 km

Conversion in the opposite direction

The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 kilometer is equal to 33333.3333333333 times 3 centimeters.

It can also be expressed as: 3 centimeters is equal to 1 / 33333.3333333333 kilometers.

Approximation

An approximate numerical result would be: three centimeters is about zero kilometers, or alternatively, a kilometer is about thirty-three thousand, three hundred and thirty-three point three three times three centimeters.

Footnotes

[1] The precision is 15 significant digits (fourteen digits to the right of the decimal point).

Results may contain small errors due to the use of floating point arithmetic.