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by Thorrez 2410 days ago
According to this it takes 42ms to get from Paris to SF at the speed of light in a fiber in the great circle path across Earth's surface. Ping is rtt, so that would be 84ms.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=paris+to+san+francisco...

On the topic of websites taking a long time to compute something, Wolfram Alpha is slow. I wonder if any of that slowness is artificial like flight price websites.