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Discussion: Mile/km conversion

in: Orienteering; The Website

Jan 21, 2005 12:43 PM #

Note to Ken,

Mile to km conversion ...
1 mile = 1.609 km
(4 loops of a track + 9 meters)

I don't want those km-counting folks to have any advantage when it comes to counting miles :-)!

Cheers,
Brian

Jan 21, 2005 12:45 PM #

feet:

I noticed after running the Boston marathon in 2003 that you get a better deal for 42.195km than 26.2 miles...

Jan 21, 2005 1:14 PM #

ken:

oops, it looks like I was using 1.609 some places and 1.6 in others. (it's actually more like 1.609344) this is fixed now.

note that your entries are stored in whatever units you entered them, so the exact precision is not lost.

Jan 21, 2005 9:29 PM #

ebone:

That's funny. I just noticed the 1.6-factor issue yesterday.

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