Miles to Roman Inches (mi to uncia)

1 mile equals 65,420.4878 Roman inches (rounded).

1 mile = 65,420.4878 Roman inches

How to convert miles to Roman inches

To convert miles to Roman inches, multiply the number of miles by 65,420.4878. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply Roman inches by 0.00001528573133 (rounded).

Roman inches = miles × 65,420.4878

Example: 10 miles = 654,204.878 Roman inches.

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

About these units

Mile (mi)

US & ImperialCurrent unit

5,280 feet or 1,760 yards, exactly 1,609.344 meters. This is the statute (international) mile used on US and UK roads.

A thousand paces gave the mile its name. It descends from the Latin mille passus, the Roman mile, by way of Old English mil and Middle English myle. For centuries after Rome, miles of many lengths coexisted; a sixteenth-century Mercator map, for example, shows small, medium and large Flemish miles on a single scale bar. The English statute mile was fixed by an Act of Parliament under Elizabeth I in 1593, which declared that a mile contains eight furlongs, or 5,280 feet.

The 1959 international yard and pound agreement made that mile exactly 1,609.344 meters. A slightly longer US survey mile, about 1,609.347 meters, lingered in American land surveys and was slated for retirement from 1 January 2023. Today the mile is the road unit of the United Kingdom, the United States, Liberia and Myanmar, along with several territories such as the Bahamas, Belize, Guam and the US Virgin Islands. In Canada it survives chiefly in rail transport and horse racing.

1 mile = 1,609.344 meters (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Mile; Wikipedia: Foot (unit); NIST Guide to the SI, Appendix B.8: conversion factors

Roman Inch (uncia) (uncia)

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

One twelfth of a Roman foot, about 2.46 cm. Its name, uncia, is the root of the English words 'inch' and 'ounce'.

Twelve of these made up a Roman foot, and that fraction is the whole meaning of the name: uncia is Latin for a twelfth. The same word was applied to weight, where it gave the ounce as a twelfth of the Roman pound. Because the foot is about 296 mm, the uncia works out to roughly 24.6 mm, the value Wikipedia gives, though that article notes the figure lacks a citation. Any difference in the foot carries straight through to its inch.

Latin also had pollex, meaning thumb, as a synonym for the length. Old English borrowed uncia as ynce, and a regular sound change turned it into the modern word inch, which is a cousin of ounce. The English inch kept the idea of a twelfth of a foot but was later fixed by international agreement at exactly 25.4 mm, so it is about 3 percent larger than the Roman original.

1 Roman inch (uncia) = 0.0246 meters (approximately).

Sources: Wikipedia: Roman inch; Wikipedia: Inch; Wikipedia: Ancient Roman units of measurement

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