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Old 11-08-2018, 02:07 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by markweatherill View Post
But surely the truly perverse navigator would translate everything into paces.
And there you have a good example of the practical utility of most imperial units, versus the absolute impracticality of metric. A mile is a thousand (standard Roman) paces, so if you want to go a mile (or reasonable fraction thereof), you just count paces. If you want to go a kilometer, you have to start by somehow measuring the distance from the pole to the equator - and along the Paris meridian, too.
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