How did you get on?
I thought it was a bit tricky in places.
As I said, my students had a wide ranging set of answers and were surprised by my answers.
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Since we are based in the UK - A UK mile is 1609.34m |
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A Chinese mile is 500m |
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A Scandinavian mile is 10 km |
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A nautical mile is 1852m |
Without getting into the earth being oblate and great circles.
The traditional definition of a nautical is 1 minute of arc subtended at the earths surface commonly known as approximately 2000 yards. In 1929 it was officially given the exact distance of 1852m
If you managed to get all that without looking it up - well done.