People need to learn to quit creating false precision when converting units. "621 miles" is suspiciously-specific bullshit: it was obviously converted from 1000 km, which is itself obviously a low-precision round number. The correct US customary approximation should be a round 600 miles.
this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2026
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