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Unit Converter Tools

Instant unit converters for temperature, length, weight, speed, volume, storage, area, and percentages. Type in any field and all other units update immediately.

Unit Conversion: The International System of Units

All converters on this page use the International System of Units (SI), maintained by the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM) in Sèvres, France, and adopted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the United States. SI defines seven base units from which all others derive: the metre, kilogram, second, ampere, kelvin, mole, and candela. Conversion factors between SI units and imperial units are exact by international agreement — 1 inch is exactly 25.4 millimetres, defined since 1959.

When Precision Matters

For everyday cooking, construction, or travel, three significant figures are sufficient. For engineering, chemistry, or scientific work, be aware of floating-point precision limits in browser calculations. The conversions here use standard double-precision floating-point arithmetic (IEEE 754), which provides about 15-17 significant decimal digits of precision — more than sufficient for any practical application. If you need arbitrary-precision arithmetic for scientific computation, use a dedicated scientific computing library.

Binary vs. Decimal Units for Data Storage

Data storage is a special case where two competing unit systems coexist. Hard drive manufacturers use decimal prefixes (1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes), while operating systems historically used binary prefixes (1 GB = 1,073,741,824 bytes). The IEC standardized binary prefixes in 1998 — kibibyte (KiB), mebibyte (MiB), gibibyte (GiB) — to remove ambiguity. Our data storage converter clearly labels which system is being used for each unit.