897 centiliters in deciliters
Result
The conversion result is: 897 centiliters is equivalent to 89.7 deciliters.[1]
Conversion formula
How to convert 897 centiliters to deciliters?
We know (by definition) that: 1 centiliter ≈ 0.1 dl.
We can set up a proportion to solve for the number of deciliters.
1 centiliter / 897 centiliter ≈ 0.1 dl / x dl
Now, we cross multiply to solve for our unknown x:
x dl ≈ (897 centiliter / 1 centiliter) * 0.1 dl → x dl ≈ 89.7 dl
Conclusion:
897 centiliter ≈ 89.7 dl

Conversion in the opposite direction
The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 deciliter is equal to 0.0111482720178372 times 897 centiliters.
It can also be expressed as: 897 centiliters is equal to 1 / 0.0111482720178372 deciliters.
Approximation
An approximate numerical result would be: eight hundred and ninety-seven centiliters is about zero deciliters, or alternatively, a deciliter is about zero point zero one times eight hundred and ninety-seven centiliters.
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.