[wtmt]

> On the other hand, for horizontal distance, metres (or yards) make more sense than feet. To the extent that when American tell me how far away something is in feet, I just multiply by three before trying to use the info.

Wouldn’t you divide (rather than multiply) by three to get the distance in yards, which would be closer to meters?

[adrianratnapala]

No, when people say "The thing is N feet down the road", I find that it is really N yards down the road. That is, I multiply the distance by three.

Though it's true, the alrgorithm for doing the multiplication happens to is `s/feet/yards/`