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Is 20 hands as long as The Diameter of Earth?

It's about 0.0000002 times as long as The Diameter of Earth
The length of The Diameter of Earth is about 125,553,870 hands.
(Equatorial)
The Earth — not a perfect sphere, but rather an oblate spheroid with bulged middle — has a diameter of approximately 125,553,870 hands at the Equator. The first complete view of Earth's diameter was in a photograph taken from a V-2 rocket launched in 1946 by the United States Army, which reached an altitude of 1,029,600 hands.
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