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- From: solar@fsrg.fsrg.bear.com (William del Solar)
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- Subject: Re: Metric and Imperial Units (was Canadian English)
- Summary: Units of measurement in Manhattan
- Keywords: block
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- Date: 23 Jan 93 00:12:04 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.013651.11581@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <1993Jan21.022306.3942@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com> <C17MHz.KBM@fs7.ece.cmu.edu>
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- In article <C17MHz.KBM@fs7.ece.cmu.edu> sds@henry.ece.cmu.edu (Sherwood D. Silliman) writes:
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- >Like in Manhattan, where the block is a very specific unit of distance.
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- Not so: It depends upon which way you are going.
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- East-West there are fewer blocks per mile than North-South. Some say 8
- and 20, respectively. However, the part of Manhattan with straight
- streets is an irregular grid: Some East-West blocks between some avenues
- (the North-South streets) are considerably longer than other East-West
- blocks.
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- It also depends on which part of Manhattan you have in mind: The old
- Dutch, Southern tip of the island which is definitely not a grid has very
- short, shorter still, and tiny blocks although most of them are quickly
- disappearing under new buildings. :)
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- Wm del Solar
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