40 millimeters in centimeters
Result
The conversion result is: 40 millimeters is equivalent to 4 centimeters.[1]
Conversion formula
How to convert 40 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 / 40 mm = 0.1 cm / x cm
Now, we cross multiply to solve for our unknown x:
x cm = (40 mm / 1 mm) * 0.1 cm → x cm = 4.0 cm
Conclusion:
40 mm = 4.0 cm
Conversion in the opposite direction
The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 centimeter is equal to 0.25 times 40 millimeters.
It can also be expressed as: 40 millimeters is equal to 1 / 0.25 centimeters.
Approximation
An approximate numerical result would be: forty millimeters is about zero centimeters, or alternatively, a centimeter is about zero times forty 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.