• 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