Full name: millistadion
Plural form: millistadia
Alternate spelling: millistade
Category type: length
Scale factor: 0.1577
The SI base unit for length is the metre.
1 metre is equal to 6.3411540900444 millistadion.
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The SI prefix "milli" represents a factor of 10-3, or in exponential notation, 1E-3.
So 1 millistadion = 10-3 stadia.
The definition of a stadion is as follows:
An empirical determination of the length of the stadion was made by Lev Vasilevich Firsov, who compared 81 distances given by Eratosthenes and Strabo with the straight-line distances measured by modern methods, and averaged the results. He obtained a result of about 157.7 metres (172.5 yd).