A nautical mile is ~6,076 feet or exactly 1,852 meters (???).
That is actually defined by distances on Earth (which is of course an approximation, but still ...). So, 1 nautical mile equals to one minute in the 90 degrees hemisphere arc. It's approximately 10k km from equator to the pole, so 10,000km/90/60 equals 1.852km.That is such a useful feature! Surprised I haven’t seen that more often. So much fiddly code exists that’s just fixing offsets to conform to 0 (or 1 for Lua) -based indexing!
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"A Sami measurement of distance; the distance a reindeer can travel before needing to stop to urinate. Today used to describe something that is at a very obscure distance away" (approximately 7.5 km)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsolete_Finnish_units_of_meas...