When using a scale or a ruler, have you ever noticed, how there is a measurement scale on each side? One side is usually in meters, or centimeters, or millimeters and the other is often inches. Well, what is the difference between both? If I were to ask you to convert 6.5 mm to inches can you do it?
If your answer is yes and it involves using a phone app or googling the answer, then I am not talking about that. Can you do it in your head or on a piece of paper using nothing but basic math? Most of you will answer no to converting just by hand.
That is because most of us don’t know, how to do it. Most of us don’t know which is bigger mm or an inch or even the difference between the two. But worry not for all of this will be explained below with the help of some simple conversions.
Which is bigger mm or inch?
Between the two an inch is bigger than a mm for 1 inch is equal to 25.4 mm. That means when you are converting 6.5 mm to inches, your answer will be very small. How that math works and we get the answer will be explained below.
Difference between mm and inch
Mm stands for millimeter which is part of the International System of Units, also often referred to as the Metric system. Whereas an Inch is part of the British Imperial system of measurement. These are two distinct systems of measurement that are used by different countries.
Most of the world uses the metric system, while the imperial system is used by only a handful of countries, the most prominent among them being the United States of America.
Conversions from mm to inches and vice versa
The conversion process for converting 6.5 mm to inches is quite easy. There are several ways to do it, with the easiest being a phone or computer app. If that is not an option then you can use a conversion scale, which can be downloaded from the internet or you can get them in printed form.
These scales have all the common conversions from millimeters to inches and vice versa. But we are not using these, instead we are going to do the conversions using basic math.
6.5 mm to inches
We know that an inch is bigger than a millimeter so to convert any value from mm to inches we will have to divide it by 25.4 and we will get the answer in inches. So the answer will be.
6.5/25.4 = 0.255906 inch
As we said the answer will be very small in this case.
6.5 inches to mm
Now instead of converting mm to inches we want to do the opposite and convert 6.5 inch to mm. This time we will simply multiply 6.5 by 25.4 because an inch is bigger than a mm and we will get an answer of.
6.5 x 25.4 = 165.1 mm
As you can see this time our answer is much bigger than our given value.
5.6 mm to inches
Now let’s convert another value, this time we convert 5.6 mm to inches and again we divide it by 25.4 and get the following answer.
5.6/ 25.4 = 0.220472 inches
Conversion to other scales
Whether we are converting 6.5 inches to mm or vice versa, or converting some other number. Not just that but doing conversions into other scales like foot, yards, miles, and meters. The principle always remains the same we just need to use the following steps to do any conversion.
- Establish which scale is bigger between the two that you are converting.
- Next find out by how much value the scale is bigger than the other. For example, 1 m = 3.28 ft.
- Now if you are converting the bigger scale to a smaller one, then simply multiply both values.
- But if you are going from a smaller scale to a bigger one then you need to divide your given value by the difference value.
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So by following these steps, you can convert not just 6.5 inches to mm but any value you want.