The mile is a linear measurement of length equal to exactly 1, One mile is also equal to 5, feet or 1, yards. The mile is a US customary and imperial unit of length. Miles can be abbreviated as mi , and are also sometimes abbreviated as m. For example, 1 mile can be written as 1 mi or 1 m. Because the international yard is legally defined to be equal to exactly 0.
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Meter to Kilometer. Meter to Yard. Meter to Mile. Meter to Nautical mile. Meter to Inch. There's also a conversion chart at the bottom of the article. Otherwise, do continue reading to learn why there's a bit more to the conversion than you might think. Here's Becky Kleanthous to explain in her usual humorous way Gosh, we love miles don't we? We chuck 'em about like they're salt on chips, so casual, and so intangible.
The coffee shop? Oh, just a mile down the road. And we're all exhausted because we walked miles today! I was the fastest though, by a country mile. Still, when it comes to singing, everyone is miles better than I am.
And because we love to sweat the small stuff so you don't have to, this particular article is all about how many feet can squeeze into a mile. The Romans had a unit of measure called a pes that was made up of twelve smaller units called unciae.
The Roman pes was a smidge shorter than our foot—it came in at around The inch foot didn't become a common unit of measurement until the reign of Henry I of England during the early 12th century, which has led some scholars to believe it was standardized to correspond to the inch foot of the king. The gallon we use for our liquids comes from the Roman word galeta , which meant "a pailful. The wine gallon corresponded to a vessel that was designed to hold exactly eight troy pounds of wine.
Like several other units, the pound has Roman roots. It's descended from a roman unit called the libra. They based their new unit of measure as being equivalent to grains, an existing unit, and then divided each grain avoirdupois pound into 16 ounces.
Early 18th-century steam engine entrepreneurs needed a way to express how powerful their machines were, and the industrious James Watt hit on a funny idea for comparing engines to horses. Watt studied horses and found that the average harnessed equine worker could lift pounds at a clip of roughly one foot per second, which equated to 33, foot-pounds of work per minute. Not all scholars believe that Watt arrived at his measurement so scientifically, though.
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