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All the land in our solar system (lemmy.nz)

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The circumference is roughly 40,000 kilometers. The original definition for a meter was such that 10,000 kilometers was the distance from the equator to the poles (so a quarter of the circumference). They got the math slightly wrong and didn't want to people to think the process was wrong so they didn't correct it. I forget the actual circumference but that is close enough for very rough estimates.

[–] dragonfucker 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the distance from the equator to the poles is a quarter of the circumference

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah idk why I got circumference and diameter mixed up. Whoops.