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Old Mon Jul 27, 2009, 03:16pm
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Originally Posted by mbyron View Post
Sure, with about 5300 feet in a mile, which reduces to approximately 9000/53 or about 170 miles.

That's close enough for vacation calculation.
They are precisely 170.87708 miles. Are you really able to do 9000/53 without a calculator?

Well, 275000 meters are 275 kilometers. Of course our children don't practice difficult arithmetics like American ones.

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