Once before I never had to think about how much one inch centimeters.Bypassing the usual modern measures.But suddenly the granddaughter said, "Babul, and the highest - the Boy Thumb and Thumbelina?And if they were in a fairy tale, we might get married? ".Of course, I waved her soft touch issue, then still thought.And really, who is more?And in general - how many centimeters in an inch?
only stood out free time, I began to rummage through the Internet.And naryla a lot of interesting!It turns out that the word "inch" came to us from the Netherlands.It means it is not nothing but a "thumb".So, it means that Thumbelina was the size of a thumb, and the boy Tom Thumb - just a little finger?And the kid was even slightly less tiny girl?However, remember that in Andersen's fairy tale was told that her mother had made a bed of walnut shell ... Something here does not fit!
Yeah, that's the right information!Inch, is called not the length of the thumb, and its width.That's the whole hitch!And today, it is assumed that an inch equals 2.54 centimeters.In another way, it appears that centimeter is 0.3937 of an inch.And even an inch can be likened to a foot, too, before the measure was length.So that's an inch - a twelfth of a foot.If multiplied 2.54 cm and 12 obtain the length of the foot.It is 30.48 cm.
But along the way got out interesting information that is not always an inch centimeters was as much as assumed today.Because the width of your thumb - the value is quite relative, people are all different, and all the fingers of different thickness.For reference we took srednestaticheskogo adult man, and brought about the standards.
only in each country in different years had different inch sizes.For example, in Austria-Hungary, the so-called "Viennese inch" equals 2.63402780 see. And the "English" or "imperial inch", by itself, has its roots in the foggy England.Well Guess how many centimeters in an inch English?
Yeah, England has broken all records of variability in this regard.Imagine, it turns out, 1819 was considered to be equal to 2.54004380 inch cm. However, since 1895 the standards have changed, they began to consider a measure of length equal to 2.53999780 cm. This continued until 1922.Then a little bit of an inch fell, it came in about 2.53999560 cm. After 10 years, going back to its reduction 2.5399951 see. And by 1947 dpi even become smaller, now he 2.5399931 see. It was only in 1958this figure became what it considered to be everywhere - 2,54sm.And what's more, it is already in England does not change.
Do you know how many centimeters in an inch in Germany?Here there is a complete confusion, inch across the country varied.For example, in Bavaria it corresponds to 2 432 160 cm. But then there is the so-called decimal inch, which includes 2.9185920 cm. Prussia and since 1755 there is conventional inch, it corresponds to 2.61545 cm. In 1816, he becamein the course of the decimal equal to 3.766250 cm. In Baden since 1810 accepted that an inch to 3 cm, and in the Confederation of the Rhine, he is equal to 2.61541 cm. In Saxony, it includes 2,360 cm.
And how many centimeters in an inch in Quebec?Just as much, and in the French - 2.7070050 see, with adopted in Quebec, he was with 1985.
in Spain, Mexico and the Rio de la Plata, this measure of length is another name - pulgada.While in Spain it contains 2.32166 cm in Mexico - 2.32780 cm. In the Rio de La Plata 2,547 cm enter the pulgada, ie, 1 inch.
inch Chinese is called "cun" and decimeter equals one-third, or about 3.333333 cm. Japanese - called "Sun", it is a little less than the Chinese, and is 3.0 cm.
interesting fact is that in the Baltic provinces therejust three different measures of length called inches: Riga - 2,240 cm, Courland - 3,360 cm, and Revel - 2.67150 cm.
In Poland, Rzeczpospolita and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania were the measures of length: Up to 1819 - Old Polish at-Other - inch crown, which was approximately 2,48sm;from 1819 to almost 1849 he was called Silesian, Wroclaw or Breslau, equaling 2.7420 cm. At the same time go novopolsky inches - 2.40 cm, and starolitovsky - about 2.70761 cm.
American inch since 1866equated 2.5400005080 cm, and in 1958 became equal to 2,540 cm.
That is, nowhere did not exceed 3.3 cm. Consequently, Thumbelina was about this growth - from 2.3 cm to 3.3 m. So whothe above?In this problem the lack of another - we do not know all the finger or just part of it cut off the grandmother in a fairy tale about a boy-with-fingers.If the whole, the Thumbelina barely make it to his navel, and if the baby turned out only one phalanx - that's the best option!Then the fairy-tale characters are almost the same height!And if they suddenly each other like the look, you may well make a wonderful married couple.
