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Correction for the length of The Mississippi River

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How long is 47 inches?
It's about 0.0000003 times as long as The Mississippi River
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The length of The Mississippi River is about 148,300,000 inches.
(from Lake Itasca, Minnesota through Pilottown, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana)
The total length of the Mississippi River is 148,300,000 inches. Prior to the development of soil erosion programs, the Mississippi River would carry approximately 400 million metric tons of sediment from its banks to the Gulf of Mexico every year.
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