Talk:Metric mile

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Use?[edit]

Is this used in any field apart from 1500m race? If not would a redirect be appropriate?

Clarification[edit]

Reworked to make it clear that "metric mile" isn't so much a unit of length but a rather ad hoc term used to refer to a variety of metric lengths that approximate to a mile (one web link also used the term for 1650 m!). Kept the "units of length" category, but commented out template as it is really not well defined. Pdch (talk) 22:48, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Can someone explain this to me? I'm honestly not understanding the purpose of this, even after rereading this many times. If 1 mile is ~1,609 meters.. wouldn't a "metric mile" be 1600 meters? Every competition track I've seen across high school and college was 0.25 miles/400 meters, so a set of 4 laps (i.e. 1 mile) would've been 1600 meters. Matthias Alexander Jude Shapiro (talk) 01:51, 21 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Metric[edit]

This is curious. in Norway (and the rest of Europe as far as I've heard) what we call a (metrice) mile is ten kilometers.