Slowly but surely the metric system of measurements, with its inherent advantage of simplicity, is moving into our business lives. In the United States, attached as we are to inches, pints and cubic yards, we already buy soda in liter bottles, and we measure automobile and motorcycle engines in cubic centimeters. Medications are almost always prescribed and delivered using metric measurements.

Eventually we may switch over completely, but until then, unit converters like the ones here remain useful.

Length

Temperature

°C  

°F   

°K

Area

Volume

Weight

(or mass)

All of the conversion calculators on this page are from www.unitconversion.org the best source of conversion codes on the web.

We’re part way there already

Using Google as a calculator and unit converter.

Enter numbers with exponents by formatting as

1.67e21 to represent  1.67x1021