Eli5: What’s the difference between a mile and a nautical mile
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A mile is 5280 feet. It seems arbitrary but it was a rounding up to 8 farthings, when converting Roman miles to English miles.
A nautical mile is 1 minute (or 1/60th) of a degree of the earths rotation. So a nautical mile is 1/21600 of the earth
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