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AngryData
on Aug 28, 2023
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111,111.1 meters is reliably 1 degree of latitude
You kind of mess it up from the beginning by assuming everything is based of 5 or 10 unit fractions for the math. Do it with 2,3,4,6,8 inch standards and metric becomes notebook and imperial becomes mental.
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