Mark Davis wrote:
> awful. At least with inches, feet, and miles, the number of
> feet per mile don't
> vary depending on which mile one is talking about!
A Danish mile is 7 km, a Swedish mile (a fairly popular
distance measure here) is 10 km, and an English mile is
a mere 1.6 km (approx.). So yes, the number of "feet" per
mile does vary depending on which mile one is talking
about (even when considering that the length of a "foot"
originally depended on who's foot was used to measure). ;-)
(Sorry for being OT)
/kent k
PS
Originally the Swedish mile was marginally longer than 10 km,
but via "nymil" (new mile) or "myriameter", the original term
mile (mil) was adopted for the metric adapted distance.
