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To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists lengths between 10^-2 m and 10^-1 m (1 cm and 10 cm).

1.0 cm is equal to
* 10 millimeters
* .39 inches
* edge of square of area 1 cm²
* edge of cube of volume 1 ml
1.5 cm — length of a very large mosquito.
2 cm — approximate width of an adult human finger
2.54 cm — 1 inch
3.1 cm — 1 attoparsec (10^-18 parsecs)
3.5 cm — width of film commonly used in motion pictures and still photography
4.27 cm — diameter of a golfball
7.32 cm — diameter of a baseball
8.5 cm × 5.4 cm — dimensions of a typical credit card
10 cm × 5 cm × 1 cm — dimensions of a typical hand-held device such as a mobile phone or a digital audio player (as of 2006)

Distances longer than 10 cm

See also