Sean Breheny wrote:
> I think that the problem here is that some people are defining
> "handspan" to mean the width or length of one's hand and others, I
> think, may be referring to the maximum distance from finger-tip to
> finger-tip with arms held wide open.

That would make it a arm span or two arm spans.  In any case I specifically
defined handspan to be 4 inches in my example.  Even if it were two yards,
that only changes things by a factor of 18.  Two yards is still a long way
from two soccer fields.


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