Here's where I start to worry that CDPR is biting off more than they can chew, or more than is practical.
Here's where I start to worry that CDPR is biting off more than they can chew, or more than is practical.
I'm surprised you're just now starting to worry.
Aye, indeed you did. :yes And I meant every word of it, but never did I mean to imply that I, by 'mile', was referring to an imperial mile, but instead what I would call 10 kilometres. I did point out that, to me(and several millions more I might add) a mile is 10 kilometres. I also did mention my own confusion whenever reading about miles did I not? OP mentioned km and miles hence my post of my confusion and what a mile is to me.Seriously, wat? A mile equals 10 kilometers, did I read that correctly?
Commonly a mile is 1.6 km (rounded). I'm guessing you mean the Scandinavian mile?
Aye, as do every road sign in Europe, but thank you for mentioning the slides. You get an ice cream for that. :ice:I guess I'll stick to saying km whenever I speak english.The slides were using km.
Metric system has a mile?
Every day something new
Imperial (Archaic) system:
Mile = 1760 yards, 5280 feet (and various other non-obvious 'merchant/farmer' based derivatives (barleycorns, chains, acres etc).
Also Nautical Mile = 2025.37 yards, 6076.12 feet (division of the circumference of the earth for navigation)
Standard International (Metric) system:
Km = 1000 metres, 10,000 decimeters etc, areas measured in Hectares (10,000 m^2) or Km^2 (1,000,000 m^2).
Conversions between the two aren't difficult but fraught with error ~ witness the loss of NASA's lander a few years ago because of a bad conversion.
1 yard ~ 0.914m, 1 mile ~ 1.61km
1 sq mile ~ 2.59 sq km
Aye, as do every road sign in Europe, but thank you for mentioning the slides. You get an ice cream for that. :ice:I guess I'll stick to saying km whenever I speak english.
Aye, indeed you did. :yes And I meant every word of it, but never did I mean to imply that I, by 'mile', was referring to an imperial mile, but instead what I would call 10 kilometres. I did point out that, to me(and several millions more I might add) a mile is 10 kilometres. I also did mention my own confusion whenever reading about miles did I not? OP mentioned km and miles hence my post of my confusion and what a mile is to me.
Damn, that's only 1600 metres. Another 8400 metres to go before becoming what I consider a mile(again, not imperial mile). Okay, but I guess Witcher 3 will kick ass anyway, whether conversion mishaps or not. What I was referring to was whatever someone who uses the metric system call 10 kilometres(10 000 metres) in their own language. In my case mile is the best translation. Or, rather apparently it isn't the best, since confusion did happen anyway.
Aye, as do every road sign in Europe, but thank you for mentioning the slides. You get an ice cream for that. :ice:I guess I'll stick to saying km whenever I speak english.
I guess there's always something new to learn for everyone everyday, and today's lesson is that, no you can't use the word mile in english(that's english mind you!) when referring to the metric system. Apparently km must suffice, sadly, or a misunderstanding is bound to happen. I have no idea what to call it, but mile to me(metric system not imperial mile) ought to be 10 km. Logic see. 1000 metres is a kilometre, or a 'click' in military lingo. Ten 'clicks'(km) equals a mile(again...not...imperial...mile...), 15 'clicks' equals 1.5 miles etc. A distance of 100 km, we say 10 miles, not 100 km. Even 20 or 30 km we say two or three miles. It would just be weird and people would look at you funny if you used km, especially 100 km.
Thanks! Don't get me started on measuring in feet though. Good grief! I do not use imperial system so to me it's confusing, and less logical tbh. But I'm sure it's the other way around for anyone used to imperial system, and that they think metric system doesn't make any sense at all. We don't measure long distances in decimetres however, and what's missing from your post is what you call 10 km. Because you don't go the other way, measuring the distance in metres unless the distance being a couple of hundred metres, tops. Definately wouldn't someone use decimetres in, say, a situation of giving directions. Honestly, if someone came up to me asking how many decimetres it was to the nearest gas station, even if this gas station being a couple of metres away(ergo you can see it), I would probably think the person pulling my leg asking such a question, or possibly that a mathematician had escaped from some place he probably should have stayed. ^_^ We do say square km and hectares though, referring to vast areas of course.
I had no idea about the lander, that it was because of that misunderstanding and conversion error, I mean.
Read my recent post if you please. And by all means, Sir, read my previous one as well. I clearly state that I'm not referring to an imperial mile but silly me, people are damn sensitive here, and pointing out that there are differences between countries and cultures is apparently forbidden. I share the same universe as you I guess. I hope so. I daresay we even share the same planet. I tend to space out from time to time though tbh.Uhmm .... 1 mile = 10 kilometres ...?
Excuse me,sir .... But in what universe do you live in?
Aye, indeed you did. :yes And I meant every word of it, but never did I mean to imply that I, by 'mile', was referring to an imperial mile, but instead what I would call 10 kilometres. I did point out that, to me(and several millions more I might add) a mile is 10 kilometres. I also did mention my own confusion whenever reading about miles did I not? OP mentioned km and miles hence my post of my confusion and what a mile is to me.
What I was referring to was whatever someone who uses the metric system call 10 kilometres(10 000 metres) in their own language. In my case mile is the best translation. Or, rather apparently it isn't the best, since confusion did happen anyway.
Aye, as do every road sign in Europe
I guess there's always something new to learn for everyone everyday, and today's lesson is that, no you can't use the word mile in english(that's english mind you!) when referring to the metric system. Apparently km must suffice, sadly, or a misunderstanding is bound to happen. I have no idea what to call it, but mile to me(metric system not imperial mile) ought to be 10 km. Logic see. 1000 metres is a kilometre, or a 'click' in military lingo. Ten 'clicks'(km) equals a mile(again...not...imperial...mile...), 15 'clicks' equals 1.5 miles etc. A distance of 100 km, we say 10 miles, not 100 km. Even 20 or 30 km we say two or three miles. It would just be weird and people would look at you funny if you used km, especially 100 km.
Thanks! Don't get me started on measuring in feet though. Good grief! I do not use imperial system so to me it's confusing, and less logical tbh. But I'm sure it's the other way around for anyone used to imperial system, and that they think metric system doesn't make any sense at all. We don't measure long distances in decimetres however, and what's missing from your post is what you call 10 km. Because you don't go the other way, measuring the distance in metres unless the distance being a couple of hundred metres, tops. Definately wouldn't someone use decimetres in, say, a situation of giving directions. Honestly, if someone came up to me asking how many decimetres it was to the nearest gas station, even if this gas station being a couple of metres away(ergo you can see it), I would probably think the person pulling my leg asking such a question, or possibly that a mathematician had escaped from some place he probably should have stayed. ^_^ We do say square km and hectares though, referring to vast areas of course.
I had no idea about the lander, that it was because of that misunderstanding and conversion error, I mean.
Wow, we're really doing this are we? Did you even read my post? :laughing: Do I assume correctly when saying that you don't come from a country that use the metric system? We're not from the same country and sadly any discussion seems to be moot since you clearly refuse do believe anything I say. This is simply...because you aren't aware of it in the first place as you put it. In this case, it's how we measure where I'm from. If you're thinking that I made this up...well...it's both interesting and a little sad at the same time. I don't mind actually, but rather find it educational. 'How can I convince you' I wonder? 'Do I waste my time trying?' I used the term mile and, well I learned my lesson, I'll never use the word mile again when speaking english and referring to what I mean. Never did I refer to what you(imperial system) consider a mile to be. Check my posts.This is erroneous, Miles have no relevance to the metric system, and 10 km does not mean a mile in any system of measurement.
I'm am not aware of any specific name for this unit. For any practicable terrestrial distance I would just use the term km. e.g. 1km, 15km, 1001km, 6543km - making up names that don't mean what you assume them to mean adds confusion without benefit. I *suppose* that megametre might refer to 1000km, but it seems superfluous and I've never heard anyone use it. (Recall that the unit is metre, not km, kilo already meaning 1000 times ~ there is an oddity in SI, where the unit of mass is kilogram, but all other units the standard value has 1 value at one 'standard unit' whether that be metre, pascal, joule etc.
Not here, where we have miles on road signs still. "Mille" comes from the Latin for "Thousand" and refers to double paces - each of approximately 1.6 metres (though the original units would have been something else which I can't be bothered to look up. For mile to mean 10km, the unit it is based on would be a 100m length.... which makes no sense *at all*.
Not logic ~ possibly colloquialism, but totally incorrect.
10 km is 10km, 100km is 100km. I've *never* heard of anyone using anything else for terrestrial measurements, though there are astronomical units.
Hectare is only a square 100m on a side, so not really 'vast'. It is bigger than an acre though, which was 1 chain by 10 chains (22 by 220 yds, the amount of ground ploughable in a day by one plough (with 8 oxen)), therefore one acre is 4840 square yards, or 4047 square meters (0.405 (ish) Hectares).
Mediaeval Bath had walls 1247m long, enclosing around 9 Hectares of area, though this would have been 66 chains or 6 furlongs and 6 chains, and 22 acres in the units of the time.