You probably have a monitor, tablet, laptop, televisionor any device equipped with a screen and I don’t remember how many inches is it. In addition, you no longer have the box and you cannot find the model of your equipment to search for it online. Nothing happens.
The easiest way to do this is with a simple ruler or tape measure, you won’t need anything else. And this is the most reliable way that can exist, not even the details of the model itself that you may have seen on the Internet, because sometimes they are wrong or do not refer to your specific version.
How do I know the inches of my screen?
Like I said, it’s very simple. The first thing you’ll need to do is find something to measure it with. We recommend using a flexible plastic measuring tape to avoid accidentally scratching your screen. A metal or even plastic ruler could leave accidental marks, and we don’t want that.
Well, now that you have it, all you have to do is take the two opposite ends you want, i.e. diagonally, the upper right corner and the lower left corner, for example. And draw the line from the start of the screen, don’t count the edges, that is, only what the image reflects, not the whole frame.
I’ll leave you a picture here in case it’s not entirely clear to you. The yellow line would be 32 inches, which would be 32 inches.
All is correct? We already have the centimeters that our screen measures, they can be 4 or 90, depending on whether you measure a smartphone (which you could too, but try to be exact) or a large TV. Even the image of a projector, in case you want to know how many inches it can offer.
Well, fine, just do it convert centimeters to inchesto do this we can simply use the Google converter, writing “convert cm to inches”, and only by entering our value it will tell us the inches of our screen, so we will also know if they are real or not, because many Sometimes we buy a 13-inch tablet or laptop and it turns out that they are 12.8 or 13.2, and the difference can be noticed.
The formula is simple, divide the length in cm by 2.531. In case you want to do it directly with your mobile calculator instead of searching on Google.
There you go, I can’t tell you much else, you already know how to calculate inches, and the reason why some are narrower, others more square, and yet the data doesn’t add up. This will not depend on the surface area, but on its dimensions. A 2×2 square monitor will be a few inches smaller than a 4×1, but the surface area will be the same. Hence the Ultrawide Often they are exaggerated by a few centimeters and it does not seem to us that as much fits on the screen as we would like.
And you, did you know how it was calculated and what the screen ratio affects in its total number of inches? Okay, I won’t bother you anymore and I’ll let you go and measure all the equipment in your house.
