Generic, Table: Distance AP Benchmarks and Upper Limits
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Distance AP Benchmarks and Upper Limits
Compiled from page 180 of DC Heroes 3rd Edition by Mayfair Games, published in 1993 and then corrected via Technical charts and tables from Writeups dot Org. This table lists useful approximate benchmarks within the range of measurements covered by a given AP distance, followed by an example of something that matches this AP measurement in at least one dimension, followed by the upper limit of that range.
| APs | Benchmark | roughly equivalent to: | Upper Limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 10 feet | width of typical booth or tent at a convention | 10 feet |
| 1 | 20 feet | required minimum length of a parking space inside a parking garage in NYC | 20 feet |
| 2 | 40 feet | length of a standard metal shipping container | 40 feet |
| 3 | 80 feet | an entire roll of thermal printer paper all rolled out flat | 80 feet |
| 4 | 150 feet | common length for garden hose or CAT6 network cable | 160 feet (53 yds 1 ft or 48.8 m) |
| 5 | 100 yards | standard football field length between end zones | 320 feet (106 yds 2 ft or 97.5 m) |
| 6 | 200 yards | Harlem River width at Lexington Avenue subway crossing | 640 feet (213 yds 1 ft or 195.1 m) |
| 7 | 1/8 mile | range actually covers from just over a tenth of a mile up to nearly a quarter mile! | 1280 ft (426 yds 2 ft or 390.1 m) |
| 8 | 1/4 mile | height of the Empire State Building, 2 to 4 city blocks in NYC or Metropolis | 2560 feet (853 yds 1 ft or 780.2 m, nearly half a mile) |
| 9 | 1/2 mile | Central Park width from Fifth Avenue to Central Park West | 5120 feet (1706 yds 2 ft or 1.56 km, 0.97 mile) |
| 10 | 1 mile | 10240 feet (3413 yds 1 ft or 3.12 km, 1.94 miles) | |
| 11 | 2 miles | north-south length of Central Park is 2 miles, east-west width of Manhattan Island is about 2.3 miles | 3 miles 4640 feet (6286 yds 2 ft or 6.24 km) |
| 12 | 4 miles | 7 miles 4000 feet (13653 yds 1 ft or 12.48 km) | |
| 13 | 8 miles | north-south length of Manhattan Island is 13.4 miles | 15 miles 2720 feet (27306 yds 2 ft or 24.97 km) |
| 14 | 16 miles | 31 miles 160 feet (54613 yds 1 ft or 49.94 km) | |
| 15 | 32 miles | 62 miles 320 feet (109320 yds or 99.89 km) | |
| 16 | 64 miles | Boston, MA to Concord, NH | 124 miles 640 feet (218460 yds or 199.76 km) |
| 17 | 125 miles | Vienna, Austria to Budapest, Hungary | 248 miles 1280 feet (436920 yds or 399.52 km) |
| 18 | 250 miles | length of Lake Volta in Ghana | 496 miles 2560 feet (873840 yds or 799.04 km) |
| 19 | 500 miles | everybody sing! | 992 miles 5120 feet (1747680 yds or 1598.08 km) |
| 20 | 1000 miles | Greece to Germany | 1985 miles 4960 feet (3495360 yds or 3196.16 km) |
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