Tenths of a mile are reasonably practical though. Like I know how long it takes to walk, run, or drive a mile, so I also know how long it takes roughly to go a tenth of a mile. (Not long by any method)
tenths of a mile are necessary because noone memorized the fractions of 1760 yards and no one does the math so yards stop getting used ~1000 and there’s a gap where you still need to talk about incomplete miles but saying something like “a mile and 1160 yards” is goofy
like you can still adapt an intuition of it but it doesn’t really fit
Tenths of a mile are reasonably practical though. Like I know how long it takes to walk, run, or drive a mile, so I also know how long it takes roughly to go a tenth of a mile. (Not long by any method)
tenths of a mile are necessary because noone memorized the fractions of 1760 yards and no one does the math so yards stop getting used ~1000 and there’s a gap where you still need to talk about incomplete miles but saying something like “a mile and 1160 yards” is goofy
like you can still adapt an intuition of it but it doesn’t really fit