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Originally Posted by Abd_von_Mumit

Metric, but also Knots, which are not metric.

And that's one of the weirdest things in maritime history. Originally a nautical mile as accepted as 2000 yards, but in 1929 the standard was established as exactly 1852 meters, or 2,025.372 yards, or 6,076.1155 feet.

So oddly enough, a nautical mile really is metric.

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