17 centimeters in millimeters

Result

The conversion result is: 17 centimeters is equivalent to 170 millimeters.[1]

Conversion formula
How to convert 17 centimeters to millimeters?

We know (by definition) that: 1 cm = 10 mm.

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

1 cm / 17 cm = 10 mm / x mm

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

x mm = (17 cm / 1 cm) * 10 mm → x mm = 170 mm

Conclusion:

17 cm = 170 mm

Conversion in the opposite direction

The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 millimeter is equal to 0.00588235294117647 times 17 centimeters.

It can also be expressed as: 17 centimeters is equal to 1 / 0.00588235294117647 millimeters.

Approximation

An approximate numerical result would be: seventeen centimeters is about one hundred and seventy millimeters, or alternatively, a millimeter is about zero point zero one times seventeen 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.