So, if you walk around a "Block", you have walked 4 Blocks? I don't agree. You've walked around 1 block.

Question

If you look at Google Earth (Map or Satellite) and see 2 blocks between you and a restaurant that is diagonally 2 blocks away, do you see 4 blocks or just 2 blocks between you and the restaurant?

Answer 1

You can chalk this one up to a deficiency in how we use the English language. We should be saying "square block" when we mean the area, and leave the word "block" to a linear calculation of distance.

Therefore, you are right. To walk "around" the block, you must walk 4 blocks.

Answer 2

Walking around a block is the equivalent of walking 4 blocks in a straight line. In reality, if you walk around the block to your starting point, you haven't walked anywhere at all. Your legs are tired for no reason.

Walking 2 blocks up and 2 blocks over is walking 4 blocks.

Answer 3

So if you walked to the corner and then turned around and came back, then you are saying you only traveled a 1/2 of block. NAH

Answer 4

to walk one block you would have to walk the distance from where the block begins to where it ends.

but if you walk around a block, you are walking 4 sides of the rectangular block. This means that the distance you walked was close to the distance you would have walked if you walked the paths of 4 blocks.

So it's incorrect to say you walked 4 blocks, because it's only one block that you are walking around. However, you walked the DISTANCE equivalent to 4 blocks.

Answer 5

A block is a unit of area, not distance. When you say you've walked one block, you mean you've walked one edge of a square that's one block in size.

Answer 6

its 4 blocks.. walking a block is the face of the block block...

Answer 7

You have walked around one square block actually, kind of like a square mile.

Answer 8

No three blocks both ends add to roughly 1 block.