5 centimeters in miles

Conversion

5 centimeters is equivalent to 3.10685596118667e-05 miles.^[1]

We know (by definition) that: $1 cm \approx 6.2137119e-06 mile$

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

\frac{1 cm}{5 cm} \approx \frac{6.2137119e-06 mile}{x mile}

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

x mile \approx \frac{5 cm}{1 cm} * 6.2137119e-06 mile \to x mile \approx 3.10685595e-05 mile

Conclusion: $5 cm \approx 3.10685595e-05 mile$

The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 mile is equal to 32186.88 times 5 centimeters.

It can also be expressed as: 5 centimeters is equal to $\frac{1}{32186.88}$ miles.

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

[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.