21 millimeters in decimeters
Result
The conversion result is: 21 millimeters is equivalent to 0.21 decimeters.[1]
Conversion formula
How to convert 21 millimeters to decimeters?
We know (by definition) that: 1 mm = 0.01 dm.
We can set up a proportion to solve for the number of decimeters.
1 mm / 21 mm = 0.01 dm / x dm
Now, we cross multiply to solve for our unknown x:
x dm = (21 mm / 1 mm) * 0.01 dm → x dm = 0.21 dm
Conclusion:
21 mm = 0.21 dm
Conversion in the opposite direction
The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 decimeter is equal to 4.76190476190476 times 21 millimeters.
It can also be expressed as: 21 millimeters is equal to 1 / 4.76190476190476 decimeters.
Approximation
An approximate numerical result would be: twenty-one millimeters is about zero decimeters, or alternatively, a decimeter is about four point seven five times twenty-one 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.