In certain cases there is a need to transfer inches to centimeters. It can be required in life, when choosing the computer or TV with an optimum size of the screen. Learn how quickly and unmistakably to transfer inches to centimeters.
Still quite recently the sizes of objects along with millimeters and centimeters could be represented in inches and feet. Today it is also necessary to face inch designations quite often. For example, usually in inches the screen size is specified in characteristics of technical devices. It can be the TV, the laptop, the tablet or the smartphone. And though most of us approximately imagines, than monitors in 5 and 14 inches differ, in certain cases it is worth knowing for sure how inches are transferred to centimeters.
How many centimeters are located in one inch?
In olden days small objects could be measured by a finger therefore in Britain the measurement measure – one inch which approximately equaled to width of a thumb of the adult man took root.
Since 1958 the English and American inch is officially equated to value in 2:54 cm. Therefore to learn how many centimeters are contained in itself by the specified number of inches, it will be required to make simple calculation – to increase the size in inches on coefficient 2.54. It is a little more difficult to transfer the specific parameters specified in inches to centimeters. For example, inch carvings, diameter of sanitary pipes, size of keys. In this case it will be required to use the calculator, or to remember the most popular values. Usually the producer specifies diameter of pipes so: 3/4, 5/16 or 1/4 inches. To learn what this size will be in centimeters, it is necessary to increase value 2.54 by the specified size. However It should be noted that traditional designation of diameter of pipes in inches almost always does not correspond to the counted value in centimeters. Therefore for exact determination of actual diameter of pipes in metric units, it is the best of all to use the help table.
Measuring devices
It is the most convenient to transfer inches to centimeters by means of various measuring devices. Today there are rulers, measuring tapes and roulettes which will show the subject size, both in inches, and in centimeters. On the one side of such ruler, centimeters and millimeters, and with another – inches and feet are specified. By means of the similar measuring tool it is possible to define with an accuracy to what length or width of a subject in the necessary units equals. Today the International society of metrology recommends to producers and large enterprises to use metric designations instead of inch in all cases when it is possible.