XinY Units - Convert length units from Inches to Centimetres
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Inches
The inch is a unit of length in the British imperial and the United States customary systems of measurement. Since the adoption of the international yard during the 1950s and 1960s it has been based on the metric system and defined as exactly 25.4 mm. The standard size pencil that you may see in schools and offices is 7 inches long.
Centimetres
A centimetre, or centimeter, is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one hundredth of a metre. For context, a piece of A4 paper is exactly 24 centimetres wide on its smallest side.