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Stranice

Scientific goal

Created by Eric VAYSSIE
Last updated by Eric VAYSSIE 4 months ago

The aim of the project is to calculate the circumference of the Earth in a collaborative process.

Our final result, is calculated with an average of 494 collaborative mesaures.

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The accepted measurement of the Earth's circumference today is about 40075km

the relative error of our collaborative calculation is (40075-39926)x100/40075 = 0.37%