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Do you know what is inch?

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By John Wick

What is inch? Sure, an inch is the length unit, but it is a little piece of information. The inch is used in two different units systems. First is the Imperial system of measurement, also called the British one. Second is the United States customary system of measurement.

The inch is a little less known worldwide than the centimeter. It is because the inch is used mostly in 2 countries – the United Kingdom and the United States. The UK and the US rejected adoption of the SI system. The inch can be described 1/36 of a yard.

What is bigger inch or centimeter?

Comparing two units is a very common action, especially if you want to choose the bigger one. What do you think – is 1 cm bigger or 1 inch? To make it clear, we need to convert both these units to one of them. It will be easier to understand when we convert both units to centimeters. The centimeter doesn’t change. This is just 1 centimeter. But make the conversion for an inch.

When you know what is inch, you also know that, 1 inch is equal to 2.54 centimeter. So the answer is 1 cm is smaller than 1 inch.

Let’s focus on the difference between a centimeter and an inch. So have a look at what the value of this difference is. Without any further ado, let’s check. First thing you need to do is a conversion of one of these units to another, just because you need to have both of them in the same unit of length. We are going to convert cm to inches now. So an inch is 1 inch, nothing more or less.

What about a centimeter? It is 0.3937 of an inch. Make a subtraction now. After subtracting 0.3937 from 1, you get the result. So see the difference: 1 inch is 0.6063 bigger than 1 centimeter.

When it comes to the centimeter and inch, one of the commonly asked questions is: are they the same units? If you read this part carefully, you will have no doubts if they are the same or not. Of course, they are both units of length, additionally both are small ones. And, to be honest, there is nothing more that they have in common.

They are parts of different systems of units. They are also used in different parts of the world. And there is more. Their values differ significantly. And that’s the main, most significant difference between this unit and main reason to know it, what really is inch and cm.

What is exactly cm metric system and why you have to know about it?

Let’s start from a scratch. Cm metric system It’s not only for centimeter.

It is commonly known that the cm is a unit of length. But this knowledge is too little. There are a lot more pieces of information about it. The centimeter is a part of the metric system. You can hear about this system also called the International System of Units, in short the SI. Mainly it is used in European countries.

So the centimeter is a basic small unit of length in countries like France, Germany or Italy. The cm can be described as 0.01 of a meter.

One centimeter is a quite small unit. That’s why some of you can’t imagine how it looks. Math is the best place to look for examples of such a small unit. We are sure that all of you see a ruler in your life. The ruler has always marked 1 cm.

And this 1 cm is described as 10 mm. But there are more examples in math, of course. Do you remember the part of math called geometry? Such a geometric figure like a square can have all sides 1 centimeter long. It is a very common example in the beginning of geometry.