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Old 05-07-2007, 04:41 PM   #16
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Old 05-07-2007, 04:44 PM   #17
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Old 05-07-2007, 04:51 PM   #18
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Old 05-07-2007, 05:12 PM   #19
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I think there is a typo in that last calculation.
Yep. Algebra - A; Arithmetic - F. :sigh:
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Old 05-07-2007, 05:29 PM   #20
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Just ya'll wait till I find my scratch pad w/figures. I mean this be important shit.. And I dun the ciphering? With the earth being 25,000 as taught in old days. Naugh + naugh = damnifino. Pie are round.
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Old 05-07-2007, 05:30 PM   #21
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25000 miles = 2*3.14*r ~=
12500 miles = 3.14*r ~=
6000 miles ~= r


Yep. Algebra - A; Arithmetic - F. :sigh:
Simplify the arithmatic.

3.14 D = 25000
D = 7962
R = 3981
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Old 05-07-2007, 05:33 PM   #22
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Dat's what I was saying Bruce. Where in hell did I get 7926, not 7962? Transpose number I guess? I only went to 3.14, which has always been close enought for oilfield work.
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Old 05-07-2007, 05:36 PM   #23
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The highest mountain? Everest?
Since the Southern Hemisphere is fatter than the Northern Hemisphere, there might be a mountain south of the Equator that's slightly lower than Everest, but whose peak is farther from the center of the Earth. Just sayin', ya know.

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Mount Chimborazo, in the Andes, is a 20,000-plus-foot peak sitting on top of a bulge on the Earth. Mount Everest is a 29,000-plus-foot peak sitting lower down on that same bulge. Because Chimborazo is a bump on a bigger part of the bulge, it is higher.
According to Senne, Chimborazo is 1.5 miles higher than Everest! Or, if you will, 1.5 miles closer to outer space.
If you define "highest" as highest from sea level, Mount Everest is still champion.
But if you want to stand on the place on Earth that is closest to the moon, that would be Mount Chimborazo!
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Old 05-07-2007, 05:37 PM   #24
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The highest mountain? Everest?
Actually it's Mt. Chimborazo in Ecuador... right near the equator and thus the greater radius adds to it's relative height vs. Everest.

a thing on NPR about it
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=9428163
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Old 05-07-2007, 05:43 PM   #25
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Old 05-07-2007, 05:49 PM   #26
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Old 05-07-2007, 05:56 PM   #27
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Old 05-07-2007, 06:00 PM   #28
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Old 05-07-2007, 06:31 PM   #29
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Cheater? I got the information the same place you did.
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Old 05-08-2007, 09:07 AM   #30
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yeah, but I posted first:
BS - 5:37
Bruce: 5:44

so there :p !
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