What is 500pc in Leagues?

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What is 500 Picas (500pc) in Leagues (leagues)?

What is 500pc in leagues? Convert 500 Picas (500pc) to Leagues (leagues) and show formula, brief history on the units and quick maths for the conversion.

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Quick Reference for Converting Picas to Leagues

Formula
leagues = pc / 1317362.49
Quick Rough Maths
To get the Leagues, divide the number of Picas by 1.3 million
Picas (pc) in 1 League
There are 1317362.49 Picas in 1 League
Leagues (leagues) in 1 Pica
There are 0 Leagues in 1 Pica

Unit Information

Pica
/ˈpʌɪkə/
Symbol: pc
Unit System: Typography

What is the Pica?

The pica is a unit of length in the field of typography and uses the symbol pc.

There are 12 points in 1 pica. 1 pica represents approximately 1/6 of an inch.

Picas are expressed using numbers and a lower case p on software such as Adobe InDesign - for example 8p6 which would represent 8 picas and 6 points (or 8.5 picas).

The Pica is very useful in measuring and calculating the space needed to print letters and words on paper - for example when laying out books or magazine articles; the font lengths are quanitified by the number of characters per pica (cpp).

League
/liːɡ/
Symbol: leagues
Unit System: None

What is the League?

The league is a ancient unit of length that doesn't below to a unit system. Its symbol is simply - league.

It was originally an ancient Celtic unit as well as being common in Latin America and meant the distance "a person could walk in an hour". It is no longer a recognised unit in any nation.

Once it started to be quantified, in Argentina (legua) it represented 5.572 km, in England it was quantified as 3 miles and at sea a league is 3 nautical miles (3.452 miles).


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