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Nice View (Posted on 2004-09-29)

Assuming that the earth is a perfect sphere, in units of the earth's radius, how high must one be to see exactly one half of the earth's surface?

Okay... okay... how about exactly one third of the earth's surface?

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Puzzle Answer

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(1) Approximately 0.73205*R, where R is the radius of the Earth.

(2) Approximately 0.06066*R above the Earth's surface.

Edited on August 14, 2023, 1:09 pm

Posted by K Sengupta on 2023-08-14 13:07:19

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