On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 19:51:22 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

On 17 Jan 2004 09:54:23 -0800, (Pat Norton)
wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote
A nautical mile is 6,080 feet (1853.18 meters)

Not quite. It is 1852 meters precisely.

Correctomundo.

~~ continued from hitting the wrong key and sending early ~~

A nautical mile is also, precisely, 6,076.12 feet.

I look at it this way - if I can get within four feet of something, I
can holler at it. :)

Later,

Tom
S. Woodstock, CT
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