In 1975, the US congress voted to abandon the imperial measuring system and join the rest of the world using the metric system exclusively.
We rebelled and refused to allow it.
Therefor, we are the only ones left in the world who use inches, feet and miles, ounces and hairs. (a hair is 1/64th of an inch)
My editors did not like describing something in feet then adding the parenthesizes in meters. Now, with the book heading off to Canada and other continents, I place this conversion table here for your convenience.
I have not taken the time to convert the flavor of the book into these tables. For example: Miles upon miles could simply be translated kilometres upon kilometres. there is no need to say 1.61 kilometres upon 1.61 kilometres.
My spell check just corrected our spelling of meters to metres.
On the other hand, there are times when seventy one feet mean seventy one feet. when building the ark precision of carpentry is required. By the way, a cubit is about a half metre.
Nevertheless, this might help some of you. Maybe if this proves too confusing I will need to rewrite the book converting every distance into your measuring language.
| feet | meters |
| 1 | 0.3 |
| 2.5 | 0.76 |
| 3 | 0.91 |
| 4 | 1.22 |
| 4.5 | 1.37 |
| 5 | 1.52 |
| 5.5 | 1.68 |
| 7.5 | 2.29 |
| 8 | 2.44 |
| 9.75 | 3 |
| 10 | 3.05 |
| 12 | 3.66 |
| 20 | 6.1 |
| 22 | 6.71 |
| 25 | 7.62 |
| 30 | 9.14 |
| 35 | 10.06 |
| 42 | 12.8 |
| 45 | 13.72 |
| 50 | 50.24 |
| 71 | 21.64 |
| 82 | 25 |
| 100 | 30.48 |
| 450 | 137.16 |
| 600 | 182.88 |
| 700 | 213.36 |
| 1000 | 304.8 |
| 8000 | 2438.4 |
| 15000 | 4572 |
| miles | km |
| 2 | 3.2 |
| 2.3 | 3.7 |
| 3 | 4.8 |
| 4 | 6.4 |
| 5 | 8 |
| 6 | 9.65 |
| 10 | 16.1 |
| 20 | 32.2 |
| 25 | 40 |
| 35 | 56.3 |
| 40 | 64.4 |
| 60 | 96.6 |
| 100 | 161 |
| 200 | 321 |
| 400 | 643.7 |
| 800 | 1287.5 |
| 1000 | 1609 |
| 1800 | 2896.8 |
| 2000 | 3218 |
| 4000 | 6437 |
| 4600 | 7400 |
| 8000 | 12875 |
| 11000 | 17700 |
| tons | metric tons |
| 5.6 | 5 |
| 6.5 | 5.9 |
| 10 | 9 |
| 11 | 9.98 |
| 31 | 28 |
| 40 | 36.3 |
| 42 | 38 |
| 103 | 9.34 |
| 1030 | 934 |
| 7550 | 6850 |
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