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To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists lengths between 10⁻¹ m and 1 m (10 cm and 1 m).

Conversions

10 cm is equal to

• 1 decimeter,
• 100 millimeters,
• 3.9 inches,
• A side of a square of area 0.01 m²
• The edge of a cube with a volume of 1 liter

91.44 cm is one yard

Wavelengths

• 1.0 dm — wavelength of the highest UHF radio frequency, 3 GHz
• 1.2 dm — wavelength of the 2.45 GHz ISM radio band
• 2.1 dm — wavelength of the 1.4 GHz hydrogen emission line
• 10 dm — wavelength of the lowest UHF radio frequency, 300 MHz

Human-built structures

• 1.2 dm — diameter of a Compact disc (CD) (= 120mm)
• 3.0 dm — typical school-use ruler length (= 300mm)
• 6.0 dm — standard depth (front to back) of a domestic kitchen worktop in Europe (= 600mm)

Nature

• 1.0 dm — diameter of the cervix upon entering the second stage of labour (in humans)
• 1.4 dm — length of average human penis
• 2.9 dm — length of average human foot
• 6.6 dm — length of the longest pine cones (produced by the sugar pine)

See also

• Orders of magnitude (length)
• Decimetre

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• This page was last modified on 5 November 2008, at 20:17.

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