METERS
Updated: 01 December 2008
Use METERS to convert from fathoms, feet, furlongs, inches, meters, miles, nautical miles, pica, points, or yards to meters.
Syntax
SELECT [westclintech].[wct].[METERS] (
<@Length, float,>
,<@From_scale, nvarchar(4000),>
,<@To_scale, nvarchar(4000),>)
Arguments
@Length
is any real number. @Length is an expression of type float or of a type that can be implicitly converted to float.
@From_scale
is the description of the units for @Length. @From_scale must be a valid value as specified in length unit representations. @From_scale must be of a data type that is implicitly convertible to varchar.
@To_scale
is the description of the units for that @Length is to be converted into. @To_scale must be a valid value as specified in length unit representations. In addition to grams, @To_scale can be decimeters, centimeters, millimeters, micrometers, nanometers, picometers, femtometers, attometers, zeptometers, yoctometers, decameters, hectometers, or kilometers .@To_scale must be of a data type that is implicitly convertible to varchar.
Return Types
float
Remarks
· The following table is a representation of the conversion of one of the length units of measure into meters:
|
inches
|
0.02540
|
|
feet
|
0.30480
|
|
yards
|
0.91440
|
|
meters
|
1.00000
|
|
fathoms
|
1.82880
|
|
furlongs
|
201.16800
|
|
miles
|
1609.34400
|
|
nautical miles
|
1852.00000
|
|
pica
|
0.004233
|
|
points
|
0.0003528
|
· Conversion of meters includes all the standard prefixes with kilo representing 1,000 and yocto representing 10E-24.
Example
select wct.METERS(100, 'yd', 'km')
Here is the result set
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0.09144
(1 row(s) affected)