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Originally Posted by hhEb09'1
I think I have found the discrepancy, in this wiki article: United States customary units. It says we're talking about the inch international measure, whereas the U. S. Survey inch is defined so that 39.37 inches is exactly 1 meter. That's obviously what the conversion website is using, right? |
Yes, but apparently it's also using it wrong, since 1.609344 km=0.999998 US survey miles and it actually shows the result as 1.00000248549 miles.
Actually I think the real problem is that he's using 32bit reals to do the calculations.
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