Inches to Furlongs (in to fur)

1 inch equals 0.0001262626263 furlongs (rounded).

1 inch = 0.0001262626263 furlongs

How to convert inches to furlongs

To convert inches to furlongs, multiply the number of inches by 0.0001262626263. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply furlongs by 7,920.

furlongs = inches × 0.0001262626263

Example: 10 inches = 0.001262626263 furlongs.

About these units

Inch (in)

US & ImperialCurrent unit

1/12 of a foot. Defined as exactly 25.4 millimeters since 1959, when the US and Commonwealth countries agreed a common international inch.

Latin uncia, meaning one-twelfth, is the root of both inch and ounce, and it passed into Old English as ynce. Roman measurers divided their foot into twelve unciae, and the English inch kept that twelfth. After 1066 an inch was reckoned as three barleycorns, and a 1324 statute attributed to Edward II spelled out the definition as three grains of barley, dry and round, placed end to end lengthwise. For centuries the inch was simply a twelfth of a foot, or a thirty-sixth of a yard, and the US and UK each kept their own copy of the standard yard.

Those copies differed slightly until the 1959 international agreement fixed the yard at exactly 0.9144 meter, which made the inch exactly 25.4 millimeters. The US adopted it in 1959 and the UK ratified it in 1963, effective 1964. Today the inch is still the customary unit in the United States and Canada, and the UK keeps it on road signs. Worldwide it also names display diagonals, wheel rims, tire codes and pipe sizes.

1 inch = 0.0254 meters (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Inch; Wikipedia: Yard; NIST Guide to the SI, Appendix B.8: conversion factors

Furlong (fur)

US & ImperialTraditional unit (still used in some regions)

220 yards, one eighth of a mile (201.168 m). Still used to measure horse races in the UK, US and Ireland.

Furrow plus long gives furlong, from the Old English furh and lang. A field strip one furlong in length was how far a team of oxen was thought to plough before pausing. The furlong has also long been treated as the equivalent of the Roman stadium, an ancient unit of similar size.

Its size was fixed against other units: 40 rods, 10 chains, 220 yards or 660 feet, which equals exactly 201.168 m. An acre was defined as one furlong long by one chain wide, so ten acres make a square furlong. When England shortened the foot in the late thirteenth century the furlong grew from 600 old feet to 660 new ones, keeping its length in rods. Eight furlongs make a mile. Official use ended in the UK under the Weights and Measures Act 1985, but racecourses, farms and canal signs still count in furlongs.

1 furlong = 201.168 meters (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Furlong; Wikipedia: Chain (unit)

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