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Is 1,100,000,000 fingers as long as The Diameter of Earth?

It's about one-and-nine-tenths times as long as The Diameter of Earth
The length of The Diameter of Earth is about 573,960,550 fingers.
(Equatorial)
The Earth — not a perfect sphere, but rather an oblate spheroid with bulged middle — has a diameter of approximately 573,960,540 fingers 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 4,706,742.90 fingers.
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