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Originally Posted by The Reaper
Did they have meters back then?
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Chains
Gunter's (Surveyor's) Chain 100 links, 66 feet or 20.1 meters
Engineer's Chain 100 links, 100 feet or 30.48 meters
Then
Furlong 1/8 mile or 220 yards (201.2 meters)
Then of course Feet, Yards and Miles.
But then we have the Nautical Mile that since 1959 has been standardized as equal to one minute of arc of a great circle of the earth. Better said as 6,076.11549 feet or 1,852 meters.
How far to the top of the next hill?