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Is 81,600,000 hands as long as The Diameter of Earth?

It's about two-thirds 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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