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- From: u108502@beta.lanl.gov (Andrew Poutiatine)
- Subject: Re: How many ft in a mile?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.220114.10940@newshost.lanl.gov>
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- Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
- References: <1993Jan12.164058.28960@dragon.acadiau.ca>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 22:01:14 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan12.164058.28960@dragon.acadiau.ca> 901371d@dragon.acadiau.ca (Danny Didio) writes:
- >I'm from Canada and on one of my asignment's we are using
- >ft miles etc insted of metric.
- >The text says nothing of conversion?
- >Can anyone help me on the subject as soon as posible, the assignment
- >is due tommoro.
-
- In the standard US mile there are 5,280 feet.
- P.S. I don't know if there are other type of miles defined, or for that matter
- other than standard feet, but this conversion is for the ones we use normally.
- -Andrew
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