Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Cryptoengineer Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom Subject: Re: Household Algebra Date: Sun, 5 May 2024 11:39:16 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 05 May 2024 17:39:16 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="e67be9047a5c21fe455273029a19a8f4"; logging-data="2037640"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/YYOR95KndmPBJsIHST5+UjOnshLv7MIo=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:/AUM5X+VNagfCc/RHvuScKRqXx0= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2255 On 5/5/2024 1:30 AM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote: > In article , > Robert Woodward wrote: >> I believe that the Roman pace was defined as the distance between heel >> strikes of the same foot. BTW, 3 feet from heel strike of 1 foot to the >> heel strike of the other foot is a bit long - 30 inches is the US Army >> marching standard. >> ‹----------------------------------------------------- > [Hal Heydt] > ...and double that would be 5 feet, which is pretty close to the > back formed 5.28 feet. However, modern estimates are that the > Roman mile was actually 4680 feet, so a slightly shorter stride > than the modern US Army version. Since, so far as I know, mondern > people are, on average, somewhat taller than in the past, this > pretty much works out. A step is the distance between successive feet hitting the ground. A pace is the distance between the same foot hitting the ground twice. Note that the English word 'mile' is derive from the Latin 'mille', or "one thousand". pt