30 Jul
2009
30 Jul
'09
3:17 p.m.
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 1:50 PM, <rcs@xmission.com> wrote:
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.
Yep, a pace is two steps. Why there are 63360 inches per mile: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/inches.html -- Mike Stay - metaweta@gmail.com http://math.ucr.edu/~mike http://reperiendi.wordpress.com