Today's prompt was 'hops'.

I remembered the little trick which I wanted to do with the rows, an offset at the poles so that the first and last rows were at least half a row deep and the polar circumference is at least three thousand klicks. The polar region is between a maximum of pi m. km^2 and a minimum of three quarters of a million. I calculated the area of each row crudely and the sum of the area of the row is less than one percent less than the 'true' world surface area, which is quite acceptable!