Why is there 5,280 feet in a mile? Why such a random number?
I can see why there is 1,000 meters in a kilometers. 1,000 is a lot easier to remember and sounds like an official and important number. But who decid
I can see why there is 1,000 meters in a kilometers. 1,000 is a lot easier to remember and sounds like an official and important number. But who decided that one mile will be 5,280 feet and why that number?
or:I can see why there is 1,000 meters in a kilometers. 1,000 is a lot easier to remember and sounds like an official and important number. But who decided that one mile will be 5,280 feet and why that number?
or:A mile is mille pasus, a thousand paces. It was the standard measure of the Roman army for about a thousand years. The foot is an ancient Egyptian unit of distance, and the roman pace just happened to be 5.28 times as long as an Egyptian foot.
or:Watch this numberphile-video on imperial length units and everything becomes clear :)www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7x-RGfd0Yk
or:It's not a random number, that's actually how many feet are in a mile. 1000 may be an easier number to remember, but it's not accurate. No one decided it, that's the true number.
or:Because there is. It's an exact measurement
