A mile is exactly 1000 paces, or 4000 feet. You may disagree, but consider: the word mile come from latin for "one thousand". Therefore a mile must be 1000 of something, namely paces. I hope you find this argument convincing.

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zahlman 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

5000, but a slightly shorter foot than the modern one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mile#Roman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Roman_units_of_measure...

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kazinator 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There is a "metric mile" which is 1500 m. This is something in the context of track and field athletics.

	▲	AdamN a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Same with a Metric ton (a "tonne") which is one thousand kilograms (pretty close to an imperial ton).
	▲	userbinator 2 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		There is also a "metric gallon", or 4L.
	▲	meatmanek 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Not to be confused with the 1600 meter or "1 mile" race which is commonly run in US track and field events (i.e. 4 times around a 400 meter track). At least that's within 1% of an actual mile.

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fc417fc802 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Maybe after society has collapsed and been rebuilt we'll end up with km and cm having a weird ratio to the meter. Same for kg. At least celsius is just about impossible to screw up.

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account42 a day ago | parent | next [-]

Celsius is already screwed up because it's not zero-based.

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fc417fc802 a day ago | parent [-]

Celcius is eminently practical (similar to power of two prefixes). Absolute zero is completely irrelevant for day to day human life.

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NetMageSCW a day ago | parent [-]

Fahrenheit is even more practical for daily life, as it was designed to be.

	▲	account42 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		How so? 0 = freezing water, 100 = boiling water is at least more useful than more or less arbitrary points of F.

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AngryData a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Celsius is just as arbitrary as farenheit so I wouldn't be so sure.

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quietsegfault 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Webster’s dictionary defines a mile as …

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flexagoon 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I think your comment is supposed to be sarcastic, but I'm not sure what the sarcasmcis about? Yes, a mile is 1000 paces. That is why it's called a mile. It's not an "argument", it's just what a mile is.