Conversion formula

The conversion factor from decimeters to centimeters is 10, which means that 1 decimeter is equal to 10 centimeters:

1 dm = 10 cm

To convert 10000 decimeters into centimeters we have to multiply 10000 by the conversion factor in order to get the length amount from decimeters to centimeters. We can also form a simple proportion to calculate the result:

1 dm → 10 cm

10000 dm → L_(cm)

Solve the above proportion to obtain the length L in centimeters:

L_(cm) = 10000 dm × 10 cm

L_(cm) = 100000 cm

The final result is:

10000 dm → 100000 cm

We conclude that 10000 decimeters is equivalent to 100000 centimeters:

10000 decimeters = 100000 centimeters

Alternative conversion

We can also convert by utilizing the inverse value of the conversion factor. In this case 1 centimeter is equal to 1.0E-5 × 10000 decimeters.

Another way is saying that 10000 decimeters is equal to 1 ÷ 1.0E-5 centimeters.

Approximate result

For practical purposes we can round our final result to an approximate numerical value. We can say that ten thousand decimeters is approximately one hundred thousand centimeters:

10000 dm ≅ 100000 cm

An alternative is also that one centimeter is approximately zero times ten thousand decimeters.