Edit: I'm an idiot who confused diameter with circumference for some reason. Embarrassing original post follows.
Was playing around a bit with the OpenWeatherMap API. I wanted to know how precise I needed to be with the latitude & longitude values, so I decided to do some quick calculations.
To get a rough idea, I wanted to determine how much a change of one degree of latitude would move in kilometers. I knew the diameter of the earth was something fairly close to 40,000 km but wanted to verify that factoid. I did a quick duckduckgo search, and the top three results (on seemingly separate web sites) all said 12,756 km. In fact one of them hilariously said 12.756 km.
I assume this is the result of LLMs filling the internet with crap, but it's alarming that if I didn't know any better, I'd have just blindly accepted this as fact.
Jonathan Lamothe
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in reply to PerryM ✅ • •@PerryM ✅ Yeah, but the real problem here was my stupidity. 😛
I don't think post editing works on Diaspora, so you probably can't see the correction, but I confused diameter and circumference.
Edit: why did I think you were on Diaspora? I'm clearly on a roll today.
PerryM ✅
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • •Also:
Source: openweathermap.org/current
Ryan Frame
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •12.756 km may be a locale difference; if the site wasn't US or UK-based the decimal might be the thousands separator.
s/diameter/circumference/?Jonathan Lamothe
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