![]() ![]() Dennis, an Arizona-based surveyor and geodesist with the National Geodetic Survey, has been cataloging mix-ups with the two feet for years and repairing errors. For more than six decades, they have been toggling between the two units, depending on what they are measuring and where. The two feet differ by about one hundredth of a foot (0.12672 inches) per mile - that’s two feet for every million feet - an amount so small that it only adds up for people who measure over long distances. The second is the newer, shorter and slightly more exact international foot from 1959, used by nearly everybody except surveyors in some states. If it comes as a surprise that there are two feet, how about this: One of those feet is about to go away. ![]() ![]() How big is a foot? In the United States, that depends on which of the two official foot measurements you are talking about. ![]()
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