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  2. Units of measurement in transportation - Wikipedia

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    kilometre (km) or kilometer is a metric unit used, outside the US, to measure the length of a journey; the international statute mile (mi) is used in the US; 1 mi = 1.609344 km; nautical mile is rarely used to derive units of transportation quantity.

  3. League (unit) - Wikipedia

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    Although most contemporary accounts used an Arabic mile of 6 444 feet (1,964 metres), which gave a Spanish league of the degree of 25,776 feet (7,857 metres or 4.242 modern nautical miles) others defined an Arabic mile as just 6,000 feet making a Spanish league of the degree 24,000 feet (or 7,315 metres, almost exactly 3.95 modern nautical miles).

  4. Orders of magnitude (area) - Wikipedia

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    61 000 Mm 2 Surface area of Jupiter , [ 93 ] the "surface" area of the spheroid (calculated from the mean radius as reported by NASA). The cross-sectional area of Jupiter, which is the same as the "circle" of Jupiter seen by an approaching spacecraft, is almost exactly one quarter the surface-area of the overall sphere, which in the case of ...

  5. South Carolina Highway 527 - Wikipedia

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    South Carolina Highway 527 (SC 527) is a 65.940-mile (106.120 km) state highway in the U.S. state of South Carolina. It travels between Andrews on the Williamsburg–Georgetown county line to Lee County six miles (9.7 km) south of Bishopville. The highway travels in a southeast–northwest direction.

  6. South Dakota Highway 75 - Wikipedia

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    It is 28 miles (45 kilometers) in length. History This is the third use of the South Dakota 75 designation. ... 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi: References ...

  7. Mile - Wikipedia

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    The standardised Austrian mile used in southern Germany and the Austrian Empire was 7.586 km; the Prussian mile used in northern Germany was 7.5325 km. Following its standardisation by Ole Rømer in the late 17th century, the Danish mile ( mil ) was precisely equal to the Prussian mile and likewise divided into 24,000 feet. [ 43 ]

  8. Kentucky Route 53 - Wikipedia

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    66.314 mi [1] (106.722 km) Major junctions; South end: KY 555 near Willisburg US 62 near Beaver Lake: I-64 in Shelbyville. US 60 / KY 55 Bus. in Shelbyville. I-71 in LaGrange: North end: US 42 in Oldham County: Location; Country: United States: State: Kentucky: Counties: Washington, Anderson, Spencer, Shelby, Oldham: Highway system

  9. Data mile - Wikipedia

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    In radar-related subjects and in JTIDS, a data mile is a unit of distance equal to 6,000 feet (1,829 metres; 0.9875 nautical miles; 1.136 miles). An international mile is 0.88 data mile. The speed of light is 299,792,458 metres per second (983,571,056 ft/s), or about one foot per nanosecond .