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marcos@lemmy.world 12 hours agoYou are correctly trying to say it’s well defined, but you are complaining about the wrong comment. You should check the meaning of “arbitrary” again.
Anyway, it’s not entirely arbitrary because it was created to represent a “round” fraction of the Earth’s circumference that is similar to the length of a person’s arms. But it deviated from that too, so it’s subjective how much that counts.
BakerBagel@midwest.social 10 hours ago
Why use a ratio of the length of the Earth? Why not the Moon? Or the Sun? Or Mars?
kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 8 hours ago
Because people weren’t traveling around the moon, mars, or the sun back then, they were traveling around the earth :V
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 hours ago
Ah, so it is arbitrarily human experience that defines these things, I see.