league to mile conversion

maa32 · 05 Feb 2002, 18:26 · from urth-v0202.mbox · original

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From: maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu>
Subject: (urth) league to mile conversion
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 11:26:45 -0700
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I was asked about my conversion of 30,000 leagues and 80,000 leagues before=20
the list went down, since I claimed 80,000 leagues was currently the averag=
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distance from the earth to the moon.  This is how I got my numbers: I did a=20
search on google with the words League to Mile Conversion and clicked on th=
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second page that came up, which is one of those handy conversion pages in=20
which you type in any value and it converts it to everything from picometer=
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light years.  Its address is http://www.speckdesign.com/Tlength.html.  It=20
doesn't say anything about different types of leagues, and it seems to assu=
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some kind of absolute, standard value for the league.  Check it out; the=20
distance to the moon comes up with that 80,000 league input; I don't know w=
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else to tell you. The page has old russian terms like ell, versht, makhovay=
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sazhen, etc. It has any measure you could possibly desire.
Marc Aramini

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