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2023-02-24 00:41:19 UTC - SOMEWHAT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: DE8618BE29EEB1ED2D5BF05D1A7C5F55F811812DC18A43A0C9760B0C1B5FDB36
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Original Note:
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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