Assertion: circumference | /r/HasProperty | very nearly 40,000 km
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text: Both the metre and the nautical mile were originally defined as a subdivision of the Earth's circumference; today the circumference around the poles is very nearly 40,000 km and 360 × 60 nautical miles long.
text: Aristotle reported that mathematicians had calculated the circumference of the Earth (which is slightly over 40,000 km) to be 400,000 stadia (between 62,800 and 74,000 km or 46,250 and 39,250 mi) while Archimedes stated an upper bound of 3,000,000 stadia (483,000 km or 300,000 mi) using the Hellenic stadion which scholars generally take to be 185 meters or ​1⁄ 9 of a geographical mile.