Okay, so today I wanted to figure out how many feet are in 1.79 meters. I’ve always been kind of bad with conversions, especially between metric and imperial units. It’s like, I know they’re different, but my brain just doesn’t want to cooperate sometimes.
First, I grabbed my phone and opened up the calculator app. I typed in 1.79, thinking I could just eyeball the conversion. Yeah, that didn’t work. I needed to know the actual conversion factor.
So then I opened my browser and searched for “1.79 meters to feet.” A bunch of results popped up, and I clicked on the first one. It had this handy converter where you could just type in the number of meters, and it would spit out the feet.
- I saw that 1 meter is roughly equal to 3.28 feet. That’s the magic number!
- I also found out that 1 foot has 12 inches. That’s basic stuff, but important to remember.
Then I went back to my calculator app. This time, I multiplied 1.79 by 3.28. The result was 5.8712. So, 1.79 meters is about 5.87 feet.
But I wanted to know the inches too. So, I took the 0.87 from the 5.87 and multiplied it by 12, since there are 12 inches in a foot. That gave me 10.44.
Final result
So, there you have it! 1.79 meters is roughly 5 feet and 10.5 inches. Not too shabby, right? It took a few steps, but I finally figured it out. I feel like a little less of a dummy when it comes to conversions now.
