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--- Gary LaPook wrote:

> If you ever need to figure the conversion factor of
> meters to a nautical
> mile you can go back to the basics. There are
> 10,000,000 (ten million)
> meters between the equator and the north pole and
> 5400 (90 X 60)
> nautical miles in the same distance. Ten million
> divided by 5400 equals
> 1852 meters per nautical mile.

If I recall correctly, a nautical mile is defined
officially as 1852 meters (metres, George :-) ). 
However, 1852 * 5400 = 10,000,800, so the length of
the meter is not exactly one ten-millionth of the
distance from pole to equator, as it was intended
to be.  But it's close.

Chuck Taylor
48d N
122d W


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