How to Use Conversion Charts

Often when you are doing research, you will encounter units of measurement that are not familiar to you. Apart from sitting down and learning the relationships between them, there are several ways that you can convert the information into something that you are more likely to understand. This includes using electronic unit calculators, or using conversion charts that have been pre-made for occurrences exactly like yours. If you learn how to use both of these methods effectively, you will find that you can immediately understand much more of what you read.

Here is how a conversion chart is set up: in the first column, it displays numerical values of a certain unit. For example, it will show a 1 through a 100 meters in ascending order. Next to this column, there will be other units of measurement that are the equivalent of the one located in the first meter. Next to the 1 in the meter column, there will be a value in feet or inches that corresponds to exactly 1 meter. So if you need to know what 60 meters is in feet, you can quickly scroll down to the 60 in the meters column, and then move over to the other column and have your answer almost immediately.

Conversion charts are very useful for quick conversion of small amounts, but they can also be very limited once you start needing to convert large, specific amounts. Since they are only limited to the amounts that have already been printed on them, you won’t have much of an option for larger numbers. Although it does work to multiply the figures accordingly until you have the larger one that you need, it is much easier just to use an online converter to figure out what you are looking at.

If you would like to use an online converter, you don’t have to look very far. By going to some of the top search engines and typing in your query, they will recognize it as a unit conversion and pull it off for you. You just have to word it the right way. For example, if you want to convert 300 meters to yards, you would just type: 300 meters in yard. It is very simple.