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Googling around... (Score:1)
A kilometre (American spelling: kilometer) at http://www.fact-index.com/k/ki/kilometre.html [fact-index.com]
Britanica is a strange beast... (Score:2)
Briticanica is a strange beast and not the best source for spelling differences between English and American. The book started out in the UK with accepted English spellings (for the day - they do change), but was sold to an American publisher. For a number of years it was therefore policy to standarise spellings on American rather than English norms, but it was not done in one go, and it was a slow process, so spellings vary depending upon the edition you read. I had a conversation with one of their editors
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The correct answer, of course, (Score:1)
is 0.621371192 miles [google.com]. M-I-L-E-S. ;-)