1 inch in miles

Result

The conversion result is: 1 inch is equivalent to 1.57828282828283e-05 miles.^[1]

Conversion in the opposite direction

The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 mile is equal to 63360 times 1 inch.

It can also be expressed as: 1 inch is equal to 1 / 63360 miles.

Approximation

An approximate numerical result would be: one inch is about zero miles, or alternatively, a mile is about sixty-three thousand, three hundred and sixty times one inch.

Units involved

This is how the units in this conversion are defined:

Inches

The inch (abbreviation: in or ″) is a unit of length in the imperial and United States customary systems of measurement now formally equal to 1⁄36 yard but usually understood as 1⁄12 of a foot. Derived from the Roman uncia (twelfth), inch is also sometimes used to translate related units in other measurement systems, usually understood as deriving from the width of the human thumb. Traditional standards for the exact length of an inch have varied in the past, but since the adoption of the international yard during the 1950s and 1960s it has been based on the metric system and defined as exactly 2.54 cm.

Miles

The mile is an English unit of length of linear measure equal to 5,280 feet, or 1,760 yards, and standardised as exactly 1,609.344 metres by international agreement in 1959.

Footnotes

[1] The precision is 15 significant digits (fourteen digits to the right of the decimal point).

Results may contain small errors due to the use of floating point arithmetic.