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Originally Posted by Lanzfeld
Nope.
A nautical mile is 6076 feet.
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Originally Posted by Capt Jack Harkness
According to the same source 1 nm is 6076 feet. Either way, that difference is why knots are faster than mph.
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I stand corrected - I was using a correction factor from my sonar equations, which uses a constant of 1934 to correct from ft per second into yards, and not feet into yards. Either way though, my original statement stands (minus the actual distance itself).