Cubic mile
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A cubic mile is an Imperial / U.S. customary (non-SI non-metric) unit of volume, used in the United States. It is defined as the volume of a cube with sides of 1 mile (5280 feet, 1760 yards, ≈1.609 kilometre) in length.
[edit] Symbols
There is no universally agreed symbol but the following are used:
- cubic mile
- cu mile
- cu mi
- cu m (this can be confused with cubic metre, however, mi is standard and m is rarely used)
- mile/-3
- mi/-3
- m/-3 (this can be confused with cubic metre, however, mi is standard and m is rarely used)
- mile^3
- mi^3
- m^3 (this can be confused with cubic metre, however, mi is standard and m is rarely used)
- mile³
- mi³
- m³ (this can be confused with cubic metre, however, mi is standard and m is rarely used)
[edit] Conversions
1 cubic mile is equivalent to:
- 147 197 952 000 cubic feet
- 5 451 776 000 cubic yards
- 118 282 962 000 U.S. bushels
- 1 101 117 140 000 U.S. liquid gallons
- ≈26 217 074 761.905 crude barrels
- 4 168 181 830 000 litres
- 4 168 181 830 cubic metres
- 4.16818183 cubic kilometres
[edit] See also
- 1 E9 m³ for a comparison with other volumes
- Square mile
- Orders of magnitude (volume)
- Conversion of units
- Cube (arithmetic), cube root
