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We found out the distance between the parallel of our city is 1400. 75-62,5 = 12,5 degrees (1400x360)/12,5 = 40320km ! So there's less than 0,6% of error from the modern value of 40075km.

Using your measures we find an angle of 75 degrees, we are currently working on calculating the circumference of the Earth with our values.

Hello thank you a lot for the investissement you put into doing the experiment. We couldn't be working on our project this week. We actually did the experiment and measured the angle (wich is located up the stick) (we found approximatively 62,5 degrees), using different propreties (sinus...

Thanks a lot for your participation. We will use all that you mention in our work. We will be doing the experiment on the first of december at our local noon, if you think you can make it on your local noon please keep in touch.

What different method did you use? @OmCheeto We are doing the experiment on the next monday (Monday the 27th) if you could spend a few minutes of your time to help us it would be very nice. Thank you a lot

Thank you a lot for all of your answers that we weren't expecting. We will use them. We don't have much time so we think we are going to use all of our ressources just as Eratosthenes did with the repported informations he had on the distance between Alexandria and Syene.. Considering we are...

Thanks a lot for all the answers, we tried to understand them all We came to understand that the longitude is not usefull if we use the local noon. So here's our local noon. Please send yours and indicate us if you are interested in doing the experiment with us.

hello everybody, Thanks for your help, our lattitude: 44,01211 our longitude: 4,419945999999982 We need your help please. Frenchies.

Hello, we are Maylis, Clara and Hélèna. We are students from a french high school in a class of «première scientific» (french equivalent of 11th grade) This year we have to be marked on Science more precisely on Physics. As a subjet we choose «the roundness of the earth: how Science is used to...