How the conversion works
A foot is 12 inches, and an inch is exactly 2.54 cm. So 5 ft 10.5 in is 5 × 12 + 10.5 = 70.5 inches, and 70.5 × 2.54 = 179.07 cm. Nothing is rounded: because the inch is defined as 2.54 cm, a height in whole or half inches always comes out in centimeters with two decimals at most.
Asked the other way round: How tall is 179 cm in feet?
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