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A mile is exactly 1000 paces, or 4000 feet. You may disagree, but consider: the word mile come from latin for "one thousand". Therefore a mile must be 1000 of s
by f33d5173 8mo ago
A mile is exactly 1000 paces, or 4000 feet. You may disagree, but consider: the word mile come from latin for "one thousand". Therefore a mile must be 1000 of something, namely paces. I hope you find this argument convincing.
- quietsegfault 8mo agoWebster’s dictionary defines a mile as …
- kazinator 8mo agoThere is a "metric mile" which is 1500 m. This is something in the context of track and field athletics.
- userbinator 8mo agoThere is also a "metric gallon", or 4L.
- meatmanek 8mo agoNot to be confused with the 1600 meter or "1 mile" race which is commonly run in US track and field events (i.e. 4 times around a 400 meter track). At least that's within 1% of an actual mile.
- AdamN 8mo agoSame with a Metric ton (a "tonne") which is one thousand kilograms (pretty close to an imperial ton).
- flexagoon 8mo agoI think your comment is supposed to be sarcastic, but I'm not sure what the sarcasmcis about? Yes, a mile is 1000 paces. That is why it's called a mile. It's not an "argument", it's just what a mile is.
- fc417fc802 8mo agoMaybe after society has collapsed and been rebuilt we'll end up with km and cm having a weird ratio to the meter. Same for kg. At least celsius is just about impossible to screw up.
- account42 8mo agoCelsius is already screwed up because it's not zero-based.
- fc417fc802 8mo agoCelcius is eminently practical (similar to power of two prefixes). Absolute zero is completely irrelevant for day to day human life.
- NetMageSCW 8mo agoFahrenheit is even more practical for daily life, as it was designed to be.
- account42 8mo agoHow so? 0 = freezing water, 100 = boiling water is at least more useful than more or less arbitrary points of F.
- AngryData 8mo agoCelsius is just as arbitrary as farenheit so I wouldn't be so sure.
- zahlman 8mo ago5000, but a slightly shorter foot than the modern one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mile#Roman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mile#Roman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Roman_units_of_measurement#Length https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Roman_units_of_measure...