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2023-10-22 12:46:18 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 3589E123ABCBF3269A6C581F5259B75C4AB8C3043E3B5457934DE55C6A76C8B7
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The Great Pyramid of Giza was built in ~2500 BCE, latitude was first described in ~350 BCE, and the meter was defined in 1791. The pyramid is 230 m wide, which is 0.002 degrees, which contains many values to the 7th decimal place equally as "exact" as 29.9792458. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/giza-pyramids https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/meter-defined/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_geodesy https://www.usna.edu/Users/oceano/pguth/md_help/html/approx_equivalents.htm
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