The oblateness, ellipticity, or flattening of an oblate spheroid, or oblatum, is a measure of the "squashing" of the spheroid's Geographical pole, towards its equator. If is the distance from the spheroid center to the equator——the transverse radius——and the distance from the center to the pole——the conjugate radius——then .
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