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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: hotel distances
Message-ID: <1990Jul14.233529.24912@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1501@ssc-bee.ssc-vax.UUCP> <4881@uwm.edu> <1990Jul7.230338.5702@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Jul9.133059.25973@DRD.Com> <1990Jul10.024932.24563@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Jul12.144038.2883@dhw68k.cts.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 90 23:35:29 GMT

In article <1990Jul12.144038.2883@dhw68k.cts.com> david@dhw68k.cts.com (David H. Wolfskill) writes:
>>...distances between hotels should be specified in walking minutes ...
>
>Considering differences among the human population, I would prefer that
>the distances in question were specified in some reasonably standard
>"distance" units...

Most of the seriously non-standard :-) members of the population have
some sort of idea about how their walking speed compares to the norm.
The point is, walking minutes is what people *care* about; anything else
requires them to convert, and many people don't have a very good feel
for how long it takes them to walk, say, 57 furlongs. :-)
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