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The stadion (plural stadia, Ancient Greek: στάδιον; [1] latinized as stadium), also anglicized as stade, was an ancient Greek unit of length, consisting of 600 Ancient Greek feet . Its exact length is unknown today; historians estimate it at between 150 m and 210 m.
A stadion is usually stated as 185 meters, or 607 feet, so the base has dimensions of about 2220 km by 2220 km, or 1380 miles by 1380 miles. In the ancient Greek system of measurement, the base of the New Jerusalem would have been equal to 144 million square stadia, 4.9 million square kilometers or 1.9 million square miles (roughly midway ...
Strabo noted that the distance between Rhodes and Alexandria is 3,750 stadia, and reported Posidonius's estimate of the Earth's circumference to be 180,000 stadia or 18,000 mi (29,000 km). [16] Pliny the Elder mentions Posidonius among his sources and—without naming him—reported his method for estimating the Earth's circumference.
The interval between stadia marks in most surveying instruments is 10 mrad and gives a stadia interval factor of 100. The distance between the instrument and a stadia rod can be determined simply by multiplying the measurement between the stadia hairs (known as the stadia interval) by 100. The instrument must be level for this method to work ...
1 degree = 111 km = 600 stadia, each stadia is 185 m (Greek and Roman stadia) 600 pous of 308.4 mm or 625 pes of 296 mm = 185 m (Greek and Roman stadia) (This is the stadia Herodotus equates to the Egyptian itrw of 21,000 Egyptian royal cubits) 600 x 360 = 216,000 stadia = 39,960 km 1 degree = 111 km = 700 stadia, each stadia is 158.57 m ...
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Inflation heated back up again in November, but it likely wasn’t bad enough to keep the Federal Reserve from cutting rates next week. Consumer prices were up 2.7% for the 12 months ended in ...
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