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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).

Distances shorter than 1 cm

• 1 cm — 10 millimeters
• 1 cm — .39 inches
• 1 cm — edge of square of area 1 cm²
• 1 cm — edge of cube of volume 1 ml
• 1 cm — approximate width of average fingernail
• 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 x 5.4 cm — dimensions of a typical credit card
• 10 cm x 5 cm x 1 cm — 2006 dimensions of a typical hand-held device such as a mobile phone or a digital audio player

Distances longer than 10 cm

See also

• Orders of magnitude (length)
• Centimetre