500 millimeters in meters

Conversion

500 millimeters is equivalent to 0.5 meters.[1]

Conversion formula
How to convert 500 millimeters to meters?

We know (by definition) that: 1⁢mm = 0.001⁢m

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

1 ⁢ mm 500 ⁢ mm = 0.001 ⁢ m x ⁢ m

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

x ⁢ m = 500 ⁢ mm 1 ⁢ mm * 0.001 ⁢ m → x ⁢ m = 0.5 ⁢ m

Conclusion: 500 ⁢ mm = 0.5 ⁢ m

500 millimeters is equivalent to 0.5 meters

Conversion in the opposite direction

The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 meter is equal to 2 times 500 millimeters.

It can also be expressed as: 500 millimeters is equal to 1 2 meters.

Approximation

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

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