sounds logical to me. i thought the mile was 1000 paces of a roman soldier which would be 2000 steps.
----- Original Message ----- From: "mechtly, eugene a" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, July 4, 2013 12:50 pm Subject: [USMA:53024] Re: Si and Agriculture examples To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Cc: "mechtly, eugene a" <[email protected]> > In Scouting (Boy Scouts of America, BSA) a "pace" is defined as > the distance from left-foot-down to next left-foot-down (i.e. > two steps), or the corresponding distance between right-foot-downs. > > I'm not certain which, left or right, is taught in the present > BSA handbooks. Who has a current BSA Handbook? > > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on > behalf of Pierre Abbat [[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2013 12:08 PM > To: U.S. Metric Association > Subject: [USMA:53023] Re: Si and Agriculture examples > > On Monday, July 01, 2013 18:58:41 Martin Vlietstra wrote: > > Top of my hip-bone to the ground is one metre. > > 1 m on me is up to my xiphoid. > > > My pace is about 80cm – useful when I need to confirm the > distance from the > > stumps to the boundary on a cricket field (OK, you guys might > prefer to > > replace “stumps” with “home base” etc). > > My pace is 678 mm, as long as my feet are well. That was one of > the things we > measured in the first surveying class. > > Pierre > -- > ve ka'a ro klaji la .romas. se jmaji >
