How to pronounce “stadia” in English

And he measured it to be 1/50th.Multiply the two together and you've got 250,000 stadia, in our terms about 42,500 kilometers.Now that's pretty accurate.

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And it's around 200 meters in today's terms.And he had a measurement there from Alexandria to Syene of 5,000 stadia.If I look on Google Maps, I see that's approximately 850 kilometers.

Now it's easy to romanticize this and think of the wise old ancient being the guy who got it right.But you've got to admit there's some dodgy numbers floating around there, the 5,000 stadia exactly, the 1/50th of the globe exactly.You know, maybe he had got lucky.