I'm sure that there are plenty of math types out here who can do the sines and cosines to back me up. My eighth grade algebra teacher is probably spinning in his grave. Heck, I was a bullet-headed jock in college, not a math student. I thought of everything in terms of ten yards at a clip, not in tens as centimeters and centipedes. But I'm still right.
Longer barrels make leads appear shorter.
That's a fact.