17 millimeters in centimeters

Result

The conversion result is: 17 millimeters is equivalent to 1.7 centimeters.[1]

Conversion formula
How to convert 17 millimeters to centimeters?

We know (by definition) that: 1 mm = 0.1 cm.

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

1 mm / 17 mm = 0.1 cm / x cm

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

x cm = (17 mm / 1 mm) * 0.1 cm → x cm = 1.7000000000000002 cm

Conclusion:

17 mm = 1.7000000000000002 cm

Conversion in the opposite direction

The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 centimeter is equal to 0.588235294117647 times 17 millimeters.

It can also be expressed as: 17 millimeters is equal to 1 / 0.588235294117647 centimeters.

Approximation

An approximate numerical result would be: seventeen millimeters is about zero centimeters, or alternatively, a centimeter is about zero point five nine times seventeen millimeters.

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.