Can anyone who knows history comment on whether or not it is truly a coincidence that the ratio of 1 mile to 1 kilometer approximates the Golden Ratio?<p>As an aside, Wikipedia doesn't have much on the historical development of the definition of a mile, but it has this amazing tidbit on the meter that I found fascinating:<p><i>Historically, the metre ... was designed to represent one ten-millionth of the distance from the Equator to the North Pole along Paris Meridian....</i> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre</a>