How many inches are inches?

Inch is a unit that measures the length inEuropean systems of measures. Historically, this is the width of a man's thumb. Typically, an inch is equal to 1/12 feet of a particular country. For Russia today, the word "inch" is considered to be an English inch, which is equal to 2.54 cm.

Now you know what an inch is and how much an inch is.

1 inch (English) = 10 lines = 4/7 vertices = 100 points = 1/12 feet (English) = 1/84 sazhens = 1/28 arshina = 1 / 42,000 versts.

In everyday life, however, mostly inches or feet were used, but the same size (7/4 inches) and arshin (7/3 feet).

In order to translate an inch into other units of length, you can use on-line translators (converters), which today are very many on the Internet, for example:

• www.translatorscafe.com
• www.convertr.ru

Today an inch is a bit datedmeasurement. But still it is applied. For example, the number of dpi ("dots per inch") is the resolution characteristic of devices such as printers. The diagonals of all kinds of screens are often indicated in inches. Also, the form factors of disk drives: 2.5 "- for a laptop, 5.25" - for a CD / DVD drive; 3.5 "for a standard floppy disk.In inches, the diameters of telescope lenses, the diameters of automobile wheel disks, the diameters of gas and water pipes, the calibres of guns for artillery are also measured."