Education - How To Convert Centimeters To Inches

The physical world is full of units and measurements

. Accurate measurements are required in every field to build proper infrastructure. The root of every creation is units. Everyday actions such as pouring water or milk in a cup to erecting buildings requires some or the other units. Other than that, there are units that are used to determine parameters such as length, breadth, height and so on.

There have been times when there have been different units around the globe. Due to these differences, the scientific results of various problems are hard to share and discuss. Each country or city usually has different different values for different measurements. For clarification of relevant scientific doubts it is advised to have constant values for particular paramenters. One of these, said parameter, is centimeters to inches.

The centimeter, is, however a standard accepted measurement or unit. It is a major part of International System of Units (ISU). This system has existed since the "Convention Du Metre" or the Treaty of the Meter in Paris on 20th of May 1875. Since then, 48 nations have voluntary signed and have been members of this treaty. One of those member nations is the U.S.

Before getting into conversion of units, one needs to understand and know what centimeters are all about. It is basically a unit of measurement which has been a part of metric system. A centimeter is around 0.39 inches in the U.S. When converted from metres to centimeters, 1 cm is about 1/100th of a meter. It is difficult to convert one unit to another since, there are a few things that are constant and rest of them are variables. But converting centimeters to inches is one of the simplest forms of conversions in the metric system.

There are some interesting ways of converting centimeters to inches by different methods but before that one needs to understand the concept of conversion too. So, how exactly does one calculate units? This question can be answered with the help of an illustration. Suppose there are two units named A and B. So, when one converts unit A into unit B, one requires to know what one unit of B is, in respect to unit A. Or if the unit B's value is Z in terms of unit A, then the amount in unit A is divided by Z to know the corresponding value in unit B. For instance if unit B = 1/100th of unit A.

There are two different methods used to calculate- one is manually and the other is via calculator. Both of them are illustrated below:

Manually-

1)Note down the centimeter measurement which needs to be converted

2)Next multiply centimeters to 0.3937 since 1 cm= 0.3937 inches.

Example:

15 x 0.3937 = 5.9055 inches. To know the decimal point, count the number of digits that follow after the decimal in the variables.

Calculator

Switch on the calculator and multiply the two digits. The end result is the number in inches

by: Brian Jones

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