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>>>>A metric pound is half a kg? But it's marked as deprecated for ages.
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>>>Lutz, IIRC american pound # 0.5KG, so do not translate it to colloquial german "Pfund", but think .45 -
>>>or a heavyweight boxers mass at first sight looks more intimidating by ~10% if you read it in american lb ;-))
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>>Hi Thomas
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>>I'm just kidding. I'm familiar with the problems. It's only that the OP might asume something and I just like to point out that a pound is not a pound everywhere.
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>>They never get it right, even a mile is to short. Half a mile is the walking distance of a hours walk. At least in saxony. A mile is 9062 m.
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>Fast walkers, all of the Sachsen? I'd assume something between 3,6 and 4 km/h to be a walking speed.
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>And speaking of miles, I think it depends there as well - if you walk on land, 1,61 km; if you walk on water, 1,8 km, aka nautical mile. And these aren't the same as the british ones, even though they are called imperial units. And then a knot is not miles per hour, it's something else.

Four and a half, if well prepared and trained is no problem.
Those things are ancient, where people where better on walking then now. We had a system of mile stones along the main roads, the half mile also named hour stone. Funny thing was that those stones give the distance in hours. It was remarkable that the distance Leipzig to Karl-Marx-Stadt was shorter then the time the railway needs in late 80's.

Teh empire is no longer on the british side of the lake. In this sence it's not a misnomer.