• agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    A mile was originally “mille passus”, which was Latin for 1000 paces because that’s what it was, making 1/4 mile 250 paces. Not exactly precise by modern standards, but actually a logical measure for walkable distances.

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      8 months ago

      That’s some pretty long paces? So why not use those instead of yawns? Then at lest there would be 1 point where imperial made sense. Not much, but better than nothing.