From: valkoharja <rintasaa_at_XHvCL_IPBt7ucaVkDTaghf7xahPAqlTjL6jvHex1utf6GClw0ClWiTUdRvvWpeDldsd>
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 15:30:35 -0000
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> I thought that the 1.6 size was cleared. > > Old maps show the distance in "km". A lot of people thought that "km" is > Kilometers, but it actually is Keymiles (aka miles). And a Keymile is 1.6 > Kilometer.
I hate that meme by the way. The old stuff _explicitly_ talked about kilometers. The scale was silly, and inflating by a factor of 1.5 helped somewhat, but let's not pretend it was anything else than proper metric units.