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Old 04-24-2011, 12:36 AM   #110 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by jamesqf View Post
Though if you want to be picky, a mile is a metric/decimal distance. 1000 paces (mille passum), so defined by the Romans. And a handy size, since you can with a little counting pace off a mile...
So 1000 paces = 1 mile = 5280 feet --> 1 pace = 5.28 feet
That's quite a stride, especially if we take into account that a few hundred years ago people were smaller than today (they didn't play basketball in the 15th century).
Unless we assume that a pace is two steps, but then we get into binary systems
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