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by mmaro 5418 days ago
Ping measures the round-trip time, so it would really be twice that.
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shimon 5418 days ago
The 20k figure is an approximate circumference of the Earth.
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sp332 5418 days ago
24,000 miles, not km.
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bhavin 5418 days ago
its 40k, not 20k.
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ryannielsen 5418 days ago
The circumference of the earth is ~40k km, which would make "the other side of the earth" ~20k.
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burgerbrain 5418 days ago
Yeah, that's the point.
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