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Length, weight and temperature with exact factors shown.

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Exact factors, not rounded ones

Every metric-to-imperial factor on this site is the internationally agreed exact value from the 1959 International Yard and Pound Agreement - an inch is exactly 2.54 cm, a pound is exactly 0.45359237 kg, a mile is exactly 1,609.344 m. These are definitions, not measurements, and each converter shows the factor it used so you can check the arithmetic yourself.

Temperature works differently

Length and weight conversions are proportional: double the input, double the output. Temperature scales are affine - they have different zero points, so converting requires an offset as well as a ratio. That is why °C to °F needs the +32, and why you cannot convert a temperature difference the same way you convert a temperature.

Every page works in both directions

Each converter has two input boxes and swaps freely - type in either one and the other follows. The unit selectors cover the whole dimension, so the centimetres-to-inches page will just as happily convert nautical miles to millimetres if that is what you need.

Reference tables

Each page carries a printed conversion chart alongside the calculator, because a good many people arriving at a converter want to scan a table rather than type a number. The tables are generated from the same exact factors, so they never drift from the calculator above them.