Khet to Inches (khet to in)

1 khet equals 2,066.929134 inches (rounded).

1 khet = 2,066.929134 inches

How to convert khet to inches

To convert khet to inches, multiply the number of khet by 2,066.929134. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply inches by 0.0004838095238 (rounded).

inches = khet × 2,066.929134

Example: 10 khet = 20,669.29134 inches.

Approximate value. Standards for the khet varied by place and period, so this converter uses the most commonly cited value. Treat results as estimates, not exact figures.

About these units

Khet (khet)

Ancient EgyptianHistorical unit (no longer in standard use)Approximate value

One hundred royal cubits, about 52.5 m. A land-surveying measure laid out with a knotted cord.

Land in Egypt had to be measured again and again, because the annual Nile flood erased boundaries, and the khet belonged to that work. It is usually explained as a length of 100 royal cubits, measured with a cord or rope marked by knots at regular intervals, a technique shown in tomb scenes such as that of Menna at Thebes. With a cubit of 52.5 cm, one khet comes to about 52.5 m, though cubit rods vary, so the true length could be a metre or so either way.

Usage is not entirely uniform. Wikipedia's article on Egyptian units lists the 100-cubit cord under a different name and gives khet as another label for a short rod of about 60 cm, so the term is read in more than one way by modern authors. In area work the khet is the side of a square, and one square khet is the setat, about 2,760 square metres at this size. The khet is about 52 m, or roughly 57 yards.

1 khet = 52.5 meters (approximately).

Sources: Wikipedia: Ancient Egyptian units of measurement; Wikipedia: Cubit

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

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