In my high-school Latin class, we were told that a pace was one step with each foot, and that a mile was 1000 paces. Assuming a Roman mile is the same as a modern mile(?), this would make a Roman pace = 5.28 (modern) feet. Rich ---------------- Quoting James Propp <jpropp@cs.uml.edu>:
Is there a words that means the operation of taking a pair of steps (one with the left foot and one with the right), or the distance travelled during such an operation?
I had hoped that the term "stride" meant this. And indeed, according to at least one website, the stride of a horse is defined as the distance the horse has advanced when each of its legs has returned to its initial position (that is, the distance the horse travels during a full period). But that same site says that a person's stride is defined as the distance the person travels when taking a single step (that is, the distance the person travels during a half-period).
For that matter, is a "lap" equal to one pool-length, or two?
Jim
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