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How many li in 1 light-year? The answer is 18921460945162. We assume you are converting between chinese mile and light year. You can view more details on each measurement unit: li or light-year The SI base unit for length is the metre. 1 metre is equal to 0.002 li, or 1.0570008340246E-16 light-year. Note that rounding errors may occur, so always check the results. Use this page to learn how to convert between chinese miles and light years. Type in your own numbers in the form to convert the units!
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The li (里, lǐ) is a traditional Chinese unit of distance, which has varied considerably over time but now has a standardized length of 500 meters or half a kilometer (c. 1640 feet). A modern li consists of 1,500 Chinese "feet" or chi and, in the past, was often translated as a "mile." Since the li has generally been only about a third as long as the mile, translating the character as "Chinese mile" or simply "li" is much less likely to produce confusion or error.
A light year, abbreviated ly, is the distance light travels in one year: roughly 9.46 × 1012 kilometres (9.46 petametres, or about 5.88 × 1012 (nearly six trillion) miles). More specifically, a light year is defined as the distance that a photon would travel, in free space and infinitely far away from any gravitational or magnetic fields, in one Julian year (365.25 days of 86400 seconds each).
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