I think you mean a Nautical Mile. A Nautical Mile is approximately one minute of arc of latitude along any meridian. By international agreement it is exactly 1852 meters (approximately 6076 feet).
Source and more information: Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautical_mile
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1 nautical mile = 1.85200 kilometers
1 nautical mile=1,852 meters
8 blocks is in one mile and .1 mile is one mile
A statute mile is a normal mile.
Each mile has 8 eighths of a mile so 4 miles have 32 eighths of a mile