[f33d5173]

A mile is exactly 1000 paces, or 4000 feet. You may disagree, but consider: the word mile come from latin for "one thousand". Therefore a mile must be 1000 of something, namely paces. I hope you find this argument convincing.

[zahlman]

5000, but a slightly shorter foot than the modern one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mile#Roman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Roman_units_of_measure...

[kazinator]

There is a "metric mile" which is 1500 m. This is something in the context of track and field athletics.

[userbinator]

There is also a "metric gallon", or 4L.

[AdamN]

Same with a Metric ton (a "tonne") which is one thousand kilograms (pretty close to an imperial ton).

[meatmanek]

Not to be confused with the 1600 meter or "1 mile" race which is commonly run in US track and field events (i.e. 4 times around a 400 meter track). At least that's within 1% of an actual mile.

[fc417fc802]

Maybe after society has collapsed and been rebuilt we'll end up with km and cm having a weird ratio to the meter. Same for kg. At least celsius is just about impossible to screw up.

[account42]

Celsius is already screwed up because it's not zero-based.

[AngryData]

Celsius is just as arbitrary as farenheit so I wouldn't be so sure.

[quietsegfault]

Webster’s dictionary defines a mile as …

[flexagoon]

I think your comment is supposed to be sarcastic, but I'm not sure what the sarcasmcis about? Yes, a mile is 1000 paces. That is why it's called a mile. It's not an "argument", it's just what a mile is.