ospalh quoted Hybrids by Robert J. Sawyer (Neanderthal Parallax, #3)
approximately thirty-five kilometers (...).” Hak translated the Neanderthal units for Mary, although Ponter had probably heard something like “70,000 armspans”
— Hybrids by Robert J. Sawyer (Neanderthal Parallax, #3) (Page 143)
Ugh. So we have established that 1 armspan ≈ 2 m. So 35’000 : 2 = 70’000 Somehow i can’t exactly follow the math here.