Re: [OM] worst of a bad bunch

[Paul Laughlin]

Multiply klicks by .6 to get miles.  Close enough for guvmint work. LOL 
 Do it on a regular basis and it becomes almost automatic.
Paul in Portland OR

On 7/22/2014 2:53 PM, Bob Whitmire wrote:

> I still tend to think in meters, but long since have given up klicks, except when I’m 
> in the unoccupied part of Canada. My rule of thumb for figuring distances up there is divide 
> klicks in half and add some back. <g>
>
> --Bob Whitmire
> Certified Neanderthal
>
> On Jul 22, 2014, at 4:42 PM, Chris Crawford <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
>
> > A mile is a unit of measure used to measure large distances. Was used
> > through the English-speaking world for centuries, but in the 20th Century
> > it was abandoned in favor of the Metric Kilometer, except in the USA. The
> > length of a mile has varied over the years and in different countries. An
> > American mile is 5280 feet, or 1.6 km.
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