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  2. DOCS-3222

Comment on: "manual/tutorial/calculate-distances-using-spherical-geometry-with-2d-geospatial-indexes.txt"

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      The distance multiplier seems to be incorrectly documented (at least in the example). To get results in miles I had to use .000252323 as the distance multiplier which is (1/radius of earth in miles), as against the documented 3959 (actual radius of earth in miles = 3963.1676)
      https://www.google.com/search?q=radius+of+earth+in+miles&oq=radius+of+earth+in+miles

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            kay.kim@mongodb.com Kay Kim (Inactive)
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              7 years, 29 weeks ago