Pete_Muller
Moderator
Al,
Your system of math on this topic yields the answer: -- "how many of those racetrack circumferences are there in a mile".
1/6.25, while possibly being a valid fraction, also makes little sense to most people.
As Menace61 showed, flip the numerator and denominator and now you actually have the decimal mile length of the track.
Or to flog this to death one more time, take 840/5280, and divide both the numerator and denominator by 120 and you get 7/44 of a mile, which once again equals .159 mile.
PM
Your system of math on this topic yields the answer: -- "how many of those racetrack circumferences are there in a mile".
1/6.25, while possibly being a valid fraction, also makes little sense to most people.
As Menace61 showed, flip the numerator and denominator and now you actually have the decimal mile length of the track.
Or to flog this to death one more time, take 840/5280, and divide both the numerator and denominator by 120 and you get 7/44 of a mile, which once again equals .159 mile.
PM