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Facts about Foot
Basic facts: A foot is a unit of length in the US customary and imperial systems of measurement, its symbol is (ft). in 1959, a foot was represented as precisely 0.3048 meters. 1 foot contains 12 inches, and 1 yard is comprised of 3 feet.
History: The measurement of the foot was used in many different systems including the Roman, Greek, English, French and Chinese systems, varying in length between each. This was prior to the standardization of units of measurement, and the definition of the foot presently in use. Historically, parts of the human body were used as a basis for units of length [like the cubit, hand, digit, span, and many others, sometimes called anthropic units], therefore various lengths existed. Compared to the present definition of 304.8 mm, the measurement of a foot varied between 250 mm and 335 mm in the past. The United States is one of the few, countries in which the foot is still used widely. Prior to metrication, many countries used their own version of the foot.
Use: The foot is predominantly used in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada, for many daily applications. In the United States, feet, and inches are typically used to measure shorter distances, height, field length [sometimes in the form of yards], etc. Feet are also commonly used to measure altitude [in aviation] as well as elevation [such as that of a mountain]. The international foot corresponds to human feet with shoe size 14 [US male], 13 [UK], 15.5 [US female], or 46 [EU].
Facts about Meter
Basic facts: In Commonwealth spelling – metre, or in American spelling – meter. Metre [symbol: m] comes from the French unit mètre and from the Greek noun “measure”. Meter is the base unit of length and distance in SI [the International System of Units]. It is defined as the distance traveled by light in 1/299 792 458 of a second. The existing definition was adopted in 1983 and changed slightly in 2002 to clarify that the metre is a measure of proper length.
History: Initially, the meter was defined as one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole, in 1793. This changed when the international prototype metre was established as the length of a prototype meter bar [made of an alloy of 90% platinum and 10% iridium] measured at the melting point of ice, in 1793. The meter was again redefined, this time in terms of a certain number of wavelengths of a certain emission line of krypton-86, In 1960. The existing definition of the meter is actually the same as the definition that was adopted in 1983, with slight changes due to the modification in the definition of the second.
Use: The meter is used worldwide (being the SI unit of length) in many applications such as measuring distance, height, length, width, etc. The US is one significant exception in that it mainly uses US customary units like yards, inches, feet, and miles rather than meters in daily use.
How many meters in a foot?
1 foot is equivalent to 0.3048 meters. Use 0.3048 as the factor to convert feet to meters. Below find some popular feet to meters conversion questions:
- How many meters in 2 feet? 2 feet x 0.3048 = 0.6096 number meters
- How many meters in 3 feet? 3 feet x 0.3048 = 0.9144 number meters
- How many meters in 5 feet? 5 feet x 0.3048 = 1.524 number meters
- How many meters in 10 feet? 10 feet x 0.3048 = 3.048 number meters
- How many meters in 20 feet? 20 feet x 0.3048 = 6.096 number meters
- How many meters in 50 feet? 50 feet x 0.3048 = 15.24 number meters
- How many meters in 100 feet? 100 feet x 0.3048 = 30.48 number meters
- How many meters in 1000 feet? 1000 feet x 0.3048 = 304.8 number meters
Feet to Meters Conversion Chart
| Feet | Meters | Feet | Meters | Feet | Meters | Feet | Meters |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0.3048 | 26 | 7.9248 | 51 | 15.5448 | 76 | 23.1648 |
| 2 | 0.6096 | 27 | 8.2296 | 52 | 15.8496 | 77 | 23.4696 |
| 3 | 0.9144 | 28 | 8.5344 | 53 | 16.1544 | 78 | 23.7744 |
| 4 | 1.2192 | 29 | 8.8392 | 54 | 16.4592 | 79 | 24.0792 |
| 5 | 1.524 | 30 | 9.144 | 55 | 16.764 | 80 | 24.384 |
| 6 | 1.8288 | 31 | 9.4488 | 56 | 17.0688 | 81 | 24.6888 |
| 7 | 2.1336 | 32 | 9.7536 | 57 | 17.3736 | 82 | 24.9936 |
| 8 | 2.4384 | 33 | 10.0584 | 58 | 17.6784 | 83 | 25.2984 |
| 9 | 2.7432 | 34 | 10.3632 | 59 | 17.9832 | 84 | 25.6032 |
| 10 | 3.048 | 35 | 10.668 | 60 | 18.288 | 85 | 25.908 |
| 11 | 3.3528 | 36 | 10.9728 | 61 | 18.5928 | 86 | 26.2128 |
| 12 | 3.6576 | 37 | 11.2776 | 62 | 18.8976 | 87 | 26.5176 |
| 13 | 3.9624 | 38 | 11.5824 | 63 | 19.2024 | 88 | 26.8224 |
| 14 | 4.2672 | 39 | 11.8872 | 64 | 19.5072 | 89 | 27.1272 |
| 15 | 4.572 | 40 | 12.192 | 65 | 19.812 | 90 | 27.432 |
| 16 | 4.8768 | 41 | 12.4968 | 66 | 20.1168 | 91 | 27.7368 |
| 17 | 5.1816 | 42 | 12.8016 | 67 | 20.4216 | 92 | 28.0416 |
| 18 | 5.4864 | 43 | 13.1064 | 68 | 20.7264 | 93 | 28.3464 |
| 19 | 5.7912 | 44 | 13.4112 | 69 | 21.0312 | 94 | 28.6512 |
| 20 | 6.096 | 45 | 13.716 | 70 | 21.336 | 95 | 28.956 |
| 21 | 6.4008 | 46 | 14.0208 | 71 | 21.6408 | 96 | 29.2608 |
| 22 | 6.7056 | 47 | 14.3256 | 72 | 21.9456 | 97 | 29.5656 |
| 23 | 7.0104 | 48 | 14.6304 | 73 | 22.2504 | 98 | 29.8704 |
| 24 | 7.3152 | 49 | 14.9352 | 74 | 22.5552 | 99 | 30.1752 |
| 25 | 7.62 | 50 | 15.24 | 75 | 22.86 | 1000 | 304.8 |