Greek Feet to Kilometers (pous to km)
1 Greek foot (Olympic) equals 0.00032 kilometers exactly.
How to convert Greek feet to kilometers
To convert Greek feet to kilometers, multiply the number of Greek feet by 0.00032. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply kilometers by 3,125.
kilometers = Greek feet × 0.00032
Example: 10 Greek feet = 0.0032 kilometers.
Approximate value. Standards for the Greek foot (Olympic) varied by place and period, so this converter uses the most commonly cited value. Treat results as estimates, not exact figures.
About these units
Greek Foot (Olympic) (pous)
One 600th of the Olympic stadion, about 32.0 cm. Greek feet differed by city; the Attic foot was nearer 29.6 cm and the Aeginetan about 33.3 cm.
Greek pous simply means foot, and the plural is podes. Every city-state kept its own foot, so the word never named a single length. Aegina used a foot of about 333 mm, Athens one of about 296 mm, and a general-purpose table gives 308.2 mm. The value used here, roughly 32.0 cm, is the Olympic foot, which is derived by dividing a stadion of about 192 m by 600.
That makes the Olympic foot a reconstruction and not a measured object, and it moves with the stadion figure chosen. Scholars have also proposed stadia near 157 m, 185 m, 196 m and 209 m, implying feet from about 26 to 35 cm. Within a Greek system the foot divided into 16 daktyloi, or fingers, and 100 feet made a plethron, a little over 30 m in the standard table. A foot of about 32 cm is close to the modern English foot of 30.48 cm, only a little longer.
1 Greek foot (Olympic) = 0.32 meters (approximately).
Sources: Wikipedia: Ancient Greek units of measurement; Wikipedia: Stadion (unit)
Kilometer (km)
1,000 meters. The standard unit for road distances in most countries.
A name for 1,000 meters took a while to settle. In 1793 France's National Convention made the metre the sole French unit of length, and the first proposed name for the thousand-metre multiple was millaire. Everyday French usage then leaned on the myriametre, 10,000 meters, well into the 1800s. The Netherlands adopted the kilometre in 1817, under the local name mijl, and made it the only official unit of that size in 1867. In 1935 the CIPM dropped the myria- prefix, which left the kilometre as the standard unit for road-scale distances.
Kilo- is the SI prefix for a thousand, and the kilometre is now the preferred unit for land distances in most of the world, with the United States, the United Kingdom and Liberia among those that still use the mile. One kilometre is about 0.621 mile. The main span of Lisbon's 25 de Abril Bridge, at 1.013 km, gives a sense of the scale. Even its pronunciation has been argued over: in 1970 Australia's Metric Conversion Board made stress on the first syllable official, although Prime Minister Gough Whitlam argued for stress on the second. Military slang in several countries calls it a klick.
1 kilometer = 1,000 meters (exactly).
Sources: Wikipedia: Kilometre; Wikipedia: Metric prefix; BIPM: history of the metre
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