1 meter in inches

Result

The conversion result is: 1 meter is equivalent to 39.3700787401575 inches.^[1]

Conversion in the opposite direction

The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 inch is equal to 0.0254 times 1 meter.

It can also be expressed as: 1 meter is equal to 1 / 0.0254 inches.

Approximation

An approximate numerical result would be: one meter is about thirty-nine point three six inches, or alternatively, a inch is about zero point zero three times one meter.

Units involved

This is how the units in this conversion are defined:

Meters

"The metre (international spelling) or meter (American spelling), (from the Greek noun μέτρον, \"measure\") is the base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI). The SI unit symbol is m. The metre is defined as the length of the path travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299792458 seconds."

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.

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.