3 ms·
I don’t think it’s that uncommon. For one thing, it is listed in the NIST Guide to the SI (https://www.nist.gov/pml/special-publication-811/nist-guide-si-append
by Someone 2y ago
I don’t think it’s that uncommon. For one thing, it is listed in the NIST Guide to the SI (https://www.nist.gov/pml/special-publication-811/nist-guide-si-appendix-b-conversion-factors/nist-guide-si-appendix-b8 https://www.nist.gov/pml/special-publication-811/nist-guide-...)
It also, IMO, beats acre-foot as a generic way to describe volumes (who even knows an acre is a chain by a furlong?)
- brnt 2y agoThe length of a mile varies across jurisdictions though. You'd think the world atlas would be mindful of the gap.