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Light travels 186000 miles (approximately) per second

So 1 mile will be traveled in 1/186000 seconds.

There are 10^12 picoseconds in a second

Therefore light will travel 1 mile in (1/186000) x 10^12 picoseconds and that evaluates to 53763440.86 picoseconds

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