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What is the history behind the mile?

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Anonymous

16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

MILE comes from MILLE, Latin for a thousand. A Roman mile was MILLE PASSUUM, a thousand paces. The Romans defined a pace as left foot, right foot, and back to left - what nowadays we would call two paces. Given that a pace is around 30 inches, a roman mile would be 30 inches - 5 feet - times 1000, or 5000 feet. A modern mile is 5,280 feet.

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