What is 470mil in Yards?

You are: Home > Length > Mils to Yards

What is 470 Mils (470mil) in Yards (yd)?

What is 470mil in yd? Convert 470 Mils (470mil) to Yards (yd) and show formula, brief history on the units and quick maths for the conversion.

Enter Mils to convert to Yards


Quick Reference for Converting Mils to Yards

Formula
yd = mil / 36000
Quick Rough Maths
To get the Yards, divide the number of Mils by 36 thousand
Mils (mil) in 1 Yard
There are 36000 Mils in 1 Yard
Yards (yd) in 1 Mil
There are 0 Yards in 1 Mil

Unit Information

Mil
/mɪl/
Symbol: mil
Unit System: Imperial

What is the Mil?

The mil is a unit of length in the imperial unit system and uses the symbol mil (or sometimes thou).

A mil in one one-thousandth of an inch (0.001 inches) or 25.4 μm.

The mil is still used in the US to measure thickness of various materials.

Yard
/jɑːd/
Symbol: yd
Unit System: Imperial

What is the Yard?

The yard is a unit of length in the imperial and US system and uses the symbol yd.

A yard is equal to 3 ft or 36 inches. There is 0.9144 m in a yard. There are 1760 yards in a mile.

Derived from the Old English 'gyrd' or 'gerd', the yard was first defined in the late 1600s laws of Ine of Wessex where a "yard of land" (yardland) was an old unit of tax assessment by the government.

The yard was the original standard adpoted by early English leaders and was apparently used in length by the Saxon race and represented the breadth of the chest of a man. After a relative hiatus, Queen Elizabeth reintroduced the yard as the English standard of measure, and it still survives in many 2nd generation conversations today.


Conversion Tables for Mils (mil) to Yards (yd)