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The Flat Earth (?)

 
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 11:40 am    Post subject: The Flat Earth (?) Reply with quote
Leonhard Euler computed that the earth's radius at the poles must be less than the radius at the equator. So it's flattened (though not of course flat ). There was a lot of doubt about the truth of this, but measurements in Finland and Ecuador proved he was right.

Read about this, and about his discovery that e raised to the power i pi equals -1 in the free humorous math newsletter, at http://www.gnarlymath.com/news/gnews1_1.html
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