A mile is 5,280 feet and a kilometer is approximately 3,280 feet.
If you need to do rough conversions just think of a kilometer as slightly more than 3/5ths of a mile.
If you need to do rough conversions just think of a kilometer as slightly more than 3/5ths of a mile.
Wow, I didn't think of poor imperial kids, that are definitely forced to remember all these numbers. But now I'm really sorry for them.
$ factor 5280
5280: 2 2 2 2 2 3 5 11
It's not like you often have to do math with them, outside of school math problems. A year isn't precisely 365 days, and months are all different lengths. It's just more of the same type of thing; doesn't actually cause problems when distances are usually expressed in miles anyway.
The system is not meant for units to be converted.
100km==60miles 80==50 50==30
It helped that that also covered most of our posted speed limits - the US with its penchant for speed limits ending in 5 would find it harder going
A kilo meter is 1000 meter like a kilo gram is 1000 gram.
A land mile is 1609.344 meter.
16 is easy to remember as a symbol of immaturity but you do get to drive in the us. Not in the eu nein
I can confidently assure you that right about now there are a bunch of Europeans reading your message multiple times, trying to figure out what 3/5ths of a mile even means, asking themselves if this is satire.