Yards to feet

One yard is 3 feet, and this shows the working rather than just the answer. Nothing you type here leaves your browser — it is worked out on your own device, so there is nothing to send and nothing to log.

The factor

One yard is 3 feet. That is the whole of the conversion: multiply by it, and nothing else happens.

And it is exact

Not rounded, not measured, not a convention that might be revised. The factor above is the definition, so an answer from it is as exact as the number you typed.

The yard is 36 inches, so exactly 0.9144 m.

The foot is 12 inches, so exactly 0.3048 m.

There is no shorter version

The factor is short enough to use as it stands, so nobody carries a rounded one and there is nothing to get wrong.

Going the other way

The reverse is not this sum backwards in your head. It is a different factor, 0.333333333333, and dividing by one is not the same as multiplying by a rounded version of the other.

Rounded, the way back is 0.333, which is low by 0.1%. So the two roundings do not cancel: go out and back with both and you do not land where you started.

How many of those decimals mean anything

The box above will give you ten decimal places because it can. Whether they mean anything is decided by your measurement, not by the arithmetic.

If you measured to the nearest yard, your figure is already uncertain by half of one — so the answer is uncertain by about 1.5 feet, and every digit past that is decoration. Quoting 3.70368 when you measured with a tape is claiming a precision the tape never had.

Where these two sit

Yards and feet both measure distance, which is why they can be converted at all. A conversion between families — a length into a weight — is not a conversion, it is a question with a missing quantity in it.

The unit converter pairs yards with metres rather than with feet, because that is the conversion people ask for most. This page exists because a good many ask for this one instead.

Other conversions from yards

metres · miles · centimetres · inches · kilometres · millimetres · nautical miles

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