Correction for the length of The Circumfrence of Earth
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How long is 0.002788 hanks?
It's about 0.0000001 times as long as The Circumfrence of Earth
The length of The Circumfrence of Earth is about 27,391.6050 hanks.
(Equatorial)
The Earth — not a perfect sphere, but rather an oblate spheroid with bulged middle — has an Equatorial circumference of approximately 27,391.6050 hanks. The first airplane trip around the circumference of the Earth (with a few stops along the way), was completed in 1924 by the United States Army Air Service, and took 175 days.