Fix - Documented unit used for Earth's radius #2842
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Corrected the "unit" that is documented as the one being used for the Earth's radius, from "kilometers" to "meters".
The constant value is:
6371008.8
, which is + 6 million, that would be meters.As mentioned in the Wikipedia that is referenced in the documentation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_radius#Arithmetic_mean_radius
6371 km are 6.371.000 meters.
This change should not bring any errors, since only changes the documentation, instead of changing the constant value to kilometers.
I took a quick look, and the code seems to have been done using the correct "meters" unit, for example when checking out the factors constant: