inch and 2 millionths of an inch shorter than the old US inch.

Related units

US survey inches

The United States retained the -metre definition for surveying, producing a 2 millionth part difference between standard and US survey inches. This is approximately inch per mile; 12.7 kilometres is exactly standard inches and exactly survey inches. This difference is substantial when doing calculations in State Plane Coordinate Systems

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