Kilograms-force to dynes
One kilogram-force is 980,664.999999999884 dynes, and this shows the working rather than just the answer. Nothing you type here leaves your browser — it is worked out on your own device, so there is nothing to send and nothing to log.
The factor
One kilogram-force is 980,664.999999999884 dynes. That is the whole of the conversion: multiply by it, and nothing else happens.
And it is exact
Not rounded, not measured, not a convention that might be revised. The factor above is the definition, so an answer from it is as exact as the number you typed.
The kilogram-force is standard gravity is defined as exactly 9.80665 m/s², so this is exact too.
The number in your head
Most people use 980,000 for this, which is the factor to two significant figures. It is low by 0.0678% — 0.678 dynes too few in every thousand, and 6.78 in every ten thousand.
Going the other way
The reverse is not this sum backwards in your head. It is a different factor, 0.000001019716, and dividing by one is not the same as multiplying by a rounded version of the other.
Rounded, the way back is 0.00000102, which is high by 0.0278%. So the two roundings do not cancel: go out and back with both and you do not land where you started.
How many of those decimals mean anything
The box above will give you ten decimal places because it can. Whether they mean anything is decided by your measurement, not by the arithmetic.
If you measured to the nearest kilogram-force, your figure is already uncertain by half of one — so the answer is uncertain by about 490,332.5 dynes, and every digit past that is decoration. Quoting 1,210,689.7824 when you measured with a tape is claiming a precision the tape never had.
Where these two sit
Kilograms-force and dynes both measure force, which is why they can be converted at all. A conversion between families — a length into a weight — is not a conversion, it is a question with a missing quantity in it.
The unit converter pairs kilograms-force with newtons rather than with dynes, because that is the conversion people ask for most. This page exists because a good many ask for this one instead.