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8 inches in feet

8 inches written in feet and inches, decimal feet, and metric — exactly, the way TapeMath's engine rounds a tape to the nearest sixteenth.

8 inches =

=0' 8"

Feet & inches

0' 8"

Decimal feet

0.666667 ft

Yards

0.222222 yd

Centimetres

20.32 cm

Millimetres

203.2 mm

Metres

0.203 m

How it's figured

8 ÷ 12

There are 12 inches in a foot, so 8 ÷ 12 = 0.666667 ft, which reads as 0' 8" on a tape. For metric, one inch is exactly 25.4 mm: 8 × 25.4 = 203.2 mm (20.32 cm, 0.203 m).

Nearby lengths

Inches around 8"

Inches	Feet & inches	Centimetres
5"	0' 5"	12.7 cm
6"	0' 6"	15.24 cm
7"	0' 7"	17.78 cm
8"	0' 8"	20.32 cm
9"	0' 9"	22.86 cm
10"	0' 10"	25.4 cm
11"	0' 11"	27.94 cm

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