• Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    24 hours ago

    A 9mm is 1/12192 of an imperial football field.

    (or so my very basic search told me for the sake of a joke, if someone wants to do the math, feel free to prove ddgAI wrong lol)

    • jon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      22 hours ago

      If you use the entire length of an American football field endzone to endzone that is accurate. However, most people would use the length excluding the endzones which is 100 yards. Which would make it

      100 yards = 91440 mm
      91440 mm / 9 mm = 1/10160 of a football field
      
      • Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        22 hours ago

        Excellent, thank you. When people use a football field as a unit of measurement, I wasn’t sure if that included the end zones or not, but I figured they’d use the larger of the two, because America