20 inches in decimeters

Result

The conversion result is: 20 inches is equivalent to 5.08 decimeters.[1]

Conversion formula
How to convert 20 inches to decimeters?

We know (by definition) that: 1 in = 0.254 dm.

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

1 in / 20 in = 0.254 dm / x dm

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

x dm = (20 in / 1 in) * 0.254 dm → x dm = 5.08 dm

Conclusion:

20 in = 5.08 dm

Conversion in the opposite direction

The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 decimeter is equal to 0.196850393700787 times 20 inches.

It can also be expressed as: 20 inches is equal to 1 / 0.196850393700787 decimeters.

Approximation

An approximate numerical result would be: twenty inches is about zero decimeters, or alternatively, a decimeter is about zero point two zero times twenty inches.

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.