A lap is down and back to the starting point. That makes your calcultions 36 laps and 32 laps. Much easier to count and keep track of!
Most people disagree and count a lap as a length.
-S-
Most who? So far at least Pat and I both use lap to mean two lengths, or to return to our starting pointing (as if we were to circle a track = 1 lap).
Obviously the word lap is ambiguous to many swmimmers and should be avoided without clarification.
I have always used 72 lengths for a 25 yd pool and 66 lengths for a 25m pool fwiw (and I don't think of them as "laps" because it is easier for me to think odd numbers down and even numbers back.)
A lap is a term that has a long history. You can look it up in the dictionary. That some people might want to change its historical usage is .....what? A short cut? A simplification? How can it be that since you are left with counting to 72 instead of "only" 36? No, "most" people do not use a length and a lap interchangeably. But, what is really sad about this whole thread is that the OP should have been able to figure all of this out in her head. The math is not that complicated. I have done it while swimming laps. Cripes! She didn't even know how long a mile is OR how to find the answer herself. That's what is sad.
A lap is a term that has a long history. You can look it up in the dictionary. That some people might want to change its historical usage is ....what? A short cut? A simplification? How can it be that since you are left with counting to 72 instead of "only" 36? No, "most" people do not use a length and a lap interchangeably. But, what is really sad about this whole thread is that the OP should have been able to figure all of this out in her head. The math is not that complicated. I have done it while swimming laps. Cripes! She didn't even know how long a mile is OR how to find the answer herself. That's what is sad.
Nice attitude! People come here looking for answers and support, and what is this? _This_ is what is sad. Thanks for the lovely post.
A lap is a term that has a long history. You can look it up in the dictionary. That some people might want to change its historical usage is ....what? A short cut? A simplification? How can it be that since you are left with counting to 72 instead of "only" 36? No, "most" people do not use a length and a lap interchangeably. But, what is really sad about this whole thread is that the OP should have been able to figure all of this out in her head. The math is not that complicated. I have done it while swimming laps. Cripes! She didn't even know how long a mile is OR how to find the answer herself. That's what is sad.
Nice attitude! People come here looking for answers and support, and what is this? _This_ is what is sad. Thanks for the lovely post.
But your attitutde is "I'm too lazy to enter '"1 mile" yards' into google and divide the answer by 25.
Nice attitude! People come here looking for answers and support, and what is this? _This_ is what is sad. Thanks for the lovely post.
watergirl
Did you not complete the third grade? Are you a small child? Take some responsibility instead of just asking everyone else to figure out a simple---yes, simple!--mathematical problem.
