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{{unit of length||m= 201.16800|accuracy=6 -->A
furlong is a measure of distance within
imperial units and
U.S. customary units, and is equal to 660 foot (unit of length) or one-eighth of a mile. In metric units, this is 201.168
metres.
Distances for
thoroughbred horse horse-racing in the United Kingdom,
Ireland and the
United States are still given in miles and furlongs ( example), but the unit is otherwise no longer in common use. It is heavily used within the rail industry (especially maintenance and repair services) in the UK, due to the legacy measurements and distance markers from when the tracks were first laid down (see
milestone).
History
The name "furlong" derives from the
Old English language words
(furrow) and
(long). Dating back at least to the ninth century, it originally referred to the length of the furrow in one acre of a ploughed
open field system (a medieval communal field which was divided into strips). The system of long furrows arose because turning a team of oxen pulling a heavy plough was difficult. This offset the drainage advantages of short furrows and meant furrows were made as long as possible. An
acre is an area that is one furlong long and one
chain (length) (22 yards) wide. For this reason, the furlong was once also called an
acre's length, though in modern usage an acre can of course be any shape.
The furlong was historically viewed as equivalent to the Ancient Roman units of measurement, which in turn derived from the
Ancient Greek units of measurement. For example the King James bible will use the term "furlong" in place of the Greek "stadion", whereas modern translations will translate into miles in the main text and relate the (often very symbolic) original numbers in footnotes.
In the Roman system, there were 625 feet to the stade, eight stade to the mile, and three miles to the league (unit). A league was considered to be the distance a man could walk in one hour, and the mile consisted of 1000 passus (5 feet, or double-step).
After the fall of Rome, Medieval Europe continued with the Roman system, which proceeded to "diversify" leading to serious complications in trade, taxation, etc. Around the turn of the century of 1300, England by decree standardized a long list of measures. Among the important units of distance and length at the time were foot (unit of length),
yard,
Rod (unit), furlong and
mile. The rod was 5½ yards or 16½ feet (= 3 feet/yard × 5½ yards), and the mile was 8 furlongs, so the definition of the furlong became 40 rods and that of the mile became 5280 feet (= 8 furlongs × 40 rods/furlong × 16½ feet/rod ).
The official use of furlong was abolished in the United Kingdom under the
Weights and Measures Act 1985 1985, which also abolished from official use many other traditional units of measurement.
==Use==An List of strange units of measurement#FFF units (sometimes used in jest) of speed is the
furlong per fortnight, which Conversion of units#Speed to:
- 0.0001663095 metre per second or roughly one centimetre per minute (in SI units)
- 0.0065476190 inches per second or roughly three eighths of an inch per minute (in imperial unit/U.S. customary units units)
Thus:
- a car travelling at 60 km/h (37 mph) is travelling at a speed of 100,214.7 furlongs per fortnight;
- a Boeing Boeing 737 cruising at 420 Knot (speed) or 216.2 m/s (i.e. typical 0.8 Mach (speed) cruise) is travelling at 1,300,013.7 furlongs per fortnight;
- the speed of light in vacuum is approximately 1.803 furlongs per fortnight, or rather 1.8 terafurlongs per fortnight;
- one furlong per fortnight is 0.166 millimetres per second, which would be barely noticeable to the naked eye (the tip of an hour hand on a clock, measuring 3.75 feet in length, travels at about 1 furlong per fortnight — as does the tip of a second hand 1/16 of an inch in length).
Five furlongs are approximately 1 kilometre (1.00584 km to be exact). Since the original
definition of the metre was one-quarter of one ten-millionth of the circumference of the Earth (along the great circle coincident with the
Meridian (geography) of
Longitude passing through Paris), the circumference of the Earth is about 40,000 km or about 200,000 furlongs.
The city of Chicago's street numbering system allots a measure of
800 address units to each mile. Logically, streets were subsequently laid out 8 to the mile. This means that every block in a typical Chicago neighborhood (in either North/South or East/West direction but rarely both) is approximately one furlong in length.
Salt Lake City's blocks are also each a square furlong in the downtown area. However, the blocks are irregular in shape as one moves further out from the center, but the numbering system remains the same (800 units to each mile) everywhere in
Salt Lake County. Bus stops in
Ann Arbor, Michigan are about a furlong apart. Blocks in central
Logan, Utah, and in large sections of Phoenix, Arizona are similarly a square furlong in extent (eight to a mile, which explains the series of freeway exits: 19th Ave, 27th, 35th, 43rd, 51st, 59th...). City blocks in Melbourne's Hoddle Grid are also one furlong in length.
{{unit of length||m= 201.16800|accuracy=6 -->A
furlong is a measure of distance within imperial units and U.S. customary units, and is equal to 660
foot (unit of length) or one-eighth of a mile. In metric units, this is 201.168
metres.
Distances for thoroughbred horse horse-racing in the
United Kingdom,
Ireland and the United States are still given in miles and furlongs ( example), but the unit is otherwise no longer in common use. It is heavily used within the rail industry (especially maintenance and repair services) in the UK, due to the legacy measurements and distance markers from when the tracks were first laid down (see milestone).
History
The name "furlong" derives from the
Old English language words
(furrow) and
(long). Dating back at least to the ninth century, it originally referred to the length of the furrow in one
acre of a ploughed
open field system (a medieval communal field which was divided into strips). The system of long furrows arose because turning a team of oxen pulling a heavy plough was difficult. This offset the drainage advantages of short furrows and meant furrows were made as long as possible. An
acre is an area that is one furlong long and one
chain (length) (22 yards) wide. For this reason, the furlong was once also called an
acre's length, though in modern usage an
acre can of course be any shape.
The furlong was historically viewed as equivalent to the Ancient Roman units of measurement, which in turn derived from the
Ancient Greek units of measurement. For example the
King James bible will use the term "furlong" in place of the Greek "stadion", whereas modern translations will translate into miles in the main text and relate the (often very symbolic) original numbers in footnotes.
In the Roman system, there were 625 feet to the stade, eight stade to the mile, and three miles to the league (unit). A league was considered to be the distance a man could walk in one hour, and the mile consisted of 1000 passus (5 feet, or double-step).
After the fall of Rome, Medieval Europe continued with the Roman system, which proceeded to "diversify" leading to serious complications in trade, taxation, etc. Around the turn of the century of 1300, England by decree standardized a long list of measures. Among the important units of distance and length at the time were
foot (unit of length), yard,
Rod (unit), furlong and mile. The rod was 5½ yards or 16½ feet (= 3 feet/yard × 5½ yards), and the mile was 8 furlongs, so the definition of the furlong became 40 rods and that of the mile became 5280 feet (= 8 furlongs × 40 rods/furlong × 16½ feet/rod ).
The official use of furlong was abolished in the United Kingdom under the Weights and Measures Act 1985 1985, which also abolished from official use many other traditional units of measurement.
==Use==An List of strange units of measurement#FFF units (sometimes used in jest) of speed is the
furlong per fortnight, which Conversion of units#Speed to:
- 0.0001663095 metre per second or roughly one centimetre per minute (in SI units)
- 0.0065476190 inches per second or roughly three eighths of an inch per minute (in imperial unit/U.S. customary units units)
Thus:
- a car travelling at 60 km/h (37 mph) is travelling at a speed of 100,214.7 furlongs per fortnight;
- a Boeing Boeing 737 cruising at 420 Knot (speed) or 216.2 m/s (i.e. typical 0.8 Mach (speed) cruise) is travelling at 1,300,013.7 furlongs per fortnight;
- the speed of light in vacuum is approximately 1.803 furlongs per fortnight, or rather 1.8 terafurlongs per fortnight;
- one furlong per fortnight is 0.166 millimetres per second, which would be barely noticeable to the naked eye (the tip of an hour hand on a clock, measuring 3.75 feet in length, travels at about 1 furlong per fortnight — as does the tip of a second hand 1/16 of an inch in length).
Five furlongs are approximately 1 kilometre (1.00584 km to be exact). Since the original
definition of the
metre was one-quarter of one ten-millionth of the circumference of the Earth (along the great circle coincident with the Meridian (geography) of
Longitude passing through Paris), the circumference of the Earth is about 40,000 km or about 200,000 furlongs.
The city of
Chicago's street numbering system allots a measure of
800 address units to each mile. Logically, streets were subsequently laid out 8 to the mile. This means that every block in a typical Chicago neighborhood (in either North/South or East/West direction but rarely both) is approximately one furlong in length.
Salt Lake City's blocks are also each a square furlong in the downtown area. However, the blocks are irregular in shape as one moves further out from the center, but the numbering system remains the same (800 units to each mile) everywhere in
Salt Lake County. Bus stops in
Ann Arbor, Michigan are about a furlong apart. Blocks in central
Logan, Utah, and in large sections of Phoenix, Arizona are similarly a square furlong in extent (eight to a mile, which explains the series of freeway exits: 19th Ave, 27th, 35th, 43rd, 51st, 59th...). City blocks in Melbourne's Hoddle Grid are also one furlong in length.
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A furlong is a measure of distance in imperial units and U.S. customary units. It is equal to one-eighth of a mile or 660 feet or 201.168 metres. Five furlongs are approximately 1 ...
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