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Mile run

You edited the article to correct the distance accurate to the millimeter. The reason it was rounded was because the sport of Athletics, governed by the IAAF, rounds to the nearest centimeter to the disadvantage of the athlete. Timing equipment is only capable of about 5 cm of accuracy with current technology, and then it is rounded to the slower .01 of a second. So millimeters do not matter to the sport. Thousandth's of a second only count to break ties. Trackinfo (talk) 18:56, 22 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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