Miles to Pieds Du Roi (mi to pied)

1 mile equals 4,954.276096 pieds du roi exactly.

1 mile = 4,954.276096 pieds du roi

How to convert miles to pieds du roi

To convert miles to pieds du roi, multiply the number of miles by 4,954.276096. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply pieds du roi by 0.0002018458359 (rounded).

pieds du roi = miles × 4,954.276096

Example: 10 miles = 49,542.76096 pieds du roi.

About these units

Mile (mi)

US & ImperialCurrent unit

5,280 feet or 1,760 yards, exactly 1,609.344 meters. This is the statute (international) mile used on US and UK roads.

A thousand paces gave the mile its name. It descends from the Latin mille passus, the Roman mile, by way of Old English mil and Middle English myle. For centuries after Rome, miles of many lengths coexisted; a sixteenth-century Mercator map, for example, shows small, medium and large Flemish miles on a single scale bar. The English statute mile was fixed by an Act of Parliament under Elizabeth I in 1593, which declared that a mile contains eight furlongs, or 5,280 feet.

The 1959 international yard and pound agreement made that mile exactly 1,609.344 meters. A slightly longer US survey mile, about 1,609.347 meters, lingered in American land surveys and was slated for retirement from 1 January 2023. Today the mile is the road unit of the United Kingdom, the United States, Liberia and Myanmar, along with several territories such as the Bahamas, Belize, Guam and the US Virgin Islands. In Canada it survives chiefly in rail transport and horse racing.

1 mile = 1,609.344 meters (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Mile; Wikipedia: Foot (unit); NIST Guide to the SI, Appendix B.8: conversion factors

Pied Du Roi (pied)

French (Ancien Régime)Historical unit (no longer in standard use)

The 'king's foot' of the French Ancien Régime, about 32.48 cm; 12 pouces. About 6.6% longer than the English foot.

King's foot is the literal meaning of the name, and the unit was reputed to descend, with little change, from the measures of Charlemagne, which in turn drew on Byzantine and Roman practice. For about a thousand years it stayed close to the same length, though the surviving standards disagree slightly: the foot of the old toise de l'Écritoire is given as 326.6 millimetres, against about 324.8 for the later royal foot.

The figure now used for the pied du roi is 4500/13853 metre, about 32.48 centimetres or 1.066 English feet. This ratio comes from the 1799 law that defined the metre in terms of the Toise of Peru. It was divided into 12 pouces and 144 lignes, while six pieds made one toise.

Wikipedia notes that its own sources vary on details of the standards. The iron toise at the Grand Châtelet was bent before 1668 and replaced by a bar roughly 0.5 percent shorter, which shows how much a nominally fixed unit could drift. Quebec's pied, still seen in land records, is about four parts per million smaller than the French original.

1 pied du roi = 0.324839385 meters (approximately).

Sources: Wikipedia: Pied du roi; Wikipedia: Toise; Wikipedia: Traditional French units of measurement

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