5 centimeters in meters

Conversion

5 centimeters is equivalent to 0.05 meters.[1]

Conversion formula
How to convert 5 centimeters to meters?

We know (by definition) that: 1⁢cm = 0.01⁢m

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

1 ⁢ cm 5 ⁢ cm = 0.01 ⁢ m x ⁢ m

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

x ⁢ m = 5 ⁢ cm 1 ⁢ cm * 0.01 ⁢ m → x ⁢ m = 0.05 ⁢ m

Conclusion: 5 ⁢ cm = 0.05 ⁢ m

5 centimeters is equivalent to 0.05 meters

Conversion in the opposite direction

The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 meter is equal to 20 times 5 centimeters.

It can also be expressed as: 5 centimeters is equal to 1 20 meters.

Approximation

An approximate numerical result would be: five centimeters is about zero meters, or alternatively, a meter is about zero times five centimeters.

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.

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