[mcpackieh]

What good is converting miles into feet anyway? I've never found a reason to perform that conversion, or reverse. A mile is just an arbitrary unit of distance that doesn't need to be related to any other. Even in sports, swimmers may casually call a 1650 yard swim 'a mile' but if you do the conversion it isn't. That doesn't matter to anybody though.

To be perfectly honest, I never remember how many feet are in a mile and the only times I've looked it up have been to calculate some meaningless trivia like how many tape measures it would take to stretch across the country, or some useless nonsense like that. Even then I usually just approximate 3 feet to a meter and 1.6 km to a mile, close enough.

[Timon3]

The most simple example is adding or subtracting distances. You might say you don't need that, but I'd wager most people need to at some point.

[mcpackieh]

Adding miles to miles or feet to feet make sense, but when do you add feet to miles?

[Timon3]

Can you really imagine no scenario when this might happen? Like "A to B is one mile, B to C is 200 feet, how long is A to B to C"? You've never come across anything like this in your whole life?