One furlong is 220 yards. There are 8 furlongs in 1 mile.
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1 mile = 8 furlongs 1 fortnight = 14 days 1 day = 24 hours 75 miles/hour * 24 hours/day * 14 days/fortnight / 8 furlongs/mile = 3150 furlongs/fortnight
A furlong is 1/8th of a mile, so 12,000 furlongs would be 1,500 miles.
Yes. Acre come from an old English word meaning 'open field.' Dating back thousands of years when we were all farmers, traditionally the Acre was long and narrow. 1 Furlong long (660 feet [220 yards]) by 1 Chain wide (66 feet). However, since Acres is a measurement of land, there is no particular shape. Furlongs became today as 1/8th of a Mile. 1 square Furlong is 10 Acres, 64 Furlongs to a square Mile, 640 Acres to a square Mile.
The Greek word here is stadia, and the equivalent of 12,000 stadia is approximately 1380 miles