17 meters in kilometers

Result

The conversion result is: 17 meters is equivalent to 0.017 kilometers.[1]

Conversion formula
How to convert 17 meters to kilometers?

We know (by definition) that: 1 m = 0.001 km.

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

1 m / 17 m = 0.001 km / x km

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

x km = (17 m / 1 m) * 0.001 km → x km = 0.017 km

Conclusion:

17 m = 0.017 km

Conversion in the opposite direction

The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 kilometer is equal to 58.8235294117647 times 17 meters.

It can also be expressed as: 17 meters is equal to 1 / 58.8235294117647 kilometers.

Approximation

An approximate numerical result would be: seventeen meters is about zero point zero two kilometers, or alternatively, a kilometer is about fifty-eight point eight two times seventeen meters.

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.