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[bellinghman]

A kilometre is not a unit of area.

C'mon guys, do you mean 60 square kilometres, 60 kilometres square, 60 kilometres radius, or what? Unfortunately, being somewhat literalist, my mental image involves the area being covered by a Peano curve approximation using a strip the width of a road and 60 kilometres long. My mental abilities won't tell me how much area that actually is.

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[songster.livejournal.com]

Er, surely it'd be (of the order of) 60km times the width of a road (say 20m)? That comes to 1.2 km^2.

[vatine]

Heh, based on the "based on a coverage area of" and "a handful to cover the UK", I'd expect it to be an area approximating that of a square, 60 km to a side.

[timill]

Having read the article, I'd guess that they mean a circle 60 km in diameter.