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Is 610.20 shaftments as long as The Diameter of Earth?

It's about one-one-hundred-fifty-thousandth as long as The Diameter of Earth
The length of The Diameter of Earth is about 83,702,580 shaftments.
(Equatorial)
The Earth — not a perfect sphere, but rather an oblate spheroid with bulged middle — has a diameter of approximately 83,702,579 shaftments 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 686,400 shaftments.
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