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Length

Metres, miles, feet and inches.

Length is where the metric and imperial worlds meet most often, and where the numbers are least negotiable: since the 1959 international yard and pound agreement, an inch is exactly 25.4 millimetres and a mile exactly 1609.344 metres. Those are definitions rather than measurements, so every converter here divides by the exact factor instead of multiplying by a rounded reciprocal.

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Every tool in this category runs entirely in your browser: there is no upload, no account and no request to a server once the page has loaded. The numbers behind them are transcribed from the organisation that defines them โ€” NIST for units, the W3C for web formats, the WHO for health measures โ€” and each page names its source next to the formula. A tool whose reference values stop reproducing fails the build and does not ship, which is the whole reason the catalogue grows slowly.

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