Length, weight, volume and temperature. Heights come back as feet and inches, body weights as stone and pounds, and UK measures are never quietly swapped for US ones.
Loaded with an example. Type over the amount.
Answer
70.866142in
180 cm is 70.866142 in
Said the usual way
5 ft 10.87 in
The working
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Length, weight, volume or temperature. Each opens with the conversion people most often want — 180 cm in inches, 70 kg in pounds.
Type an amount and pick the two units. The swap button reverses them, which is quicker than re-picking both.
Lengths and weights also show the composite form — 5 ft 10.87 in rather than 5.9 ft — because that is how people actually say them.
Knowing where a calculator stops is what makes the rest of it trustworthy.
Exactly 30.48. An inch is defined as exactly 2.54 cm, and a foot is twelve inches, so the conversion is exact rather than approximate.
5 ft 10.87 in. The converter shows the composite underneath the main answer, because decimal feet — 5.9 ft — is a unit nobody actually speaks.
No, and this catches people out constantly. A UK pint is 568 ml; a US pint is 473 ml, about 20% smaller. A US recipe calling for a pint means the smaller one. Both are listed separately here.
Multiply by 9, divide by 5, then add 32. So 20 °C is 20 × 9 ÷ 5 = 36, plus 32 = 68 °F. The working is shown so you can follow it rather than memorise it.
Because the two scales cross there. It is the one temperature where the conversion returns the number you started with, and it is a useful check that a converter is working.
Fourteen. The converter shows body weights as stone and pounds as well as the decimal figure — 70 kg is 11 st 0.3 lb.