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Originally Posted by SorenVC
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curvature of a square mile
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I'm not up to snuff on geometry, but this phrasing didn't really make sense to me. Can you explain it?
I'm reading up on curvature, and how it applies to 2d shapes like circles, rather than spheres. Is there a way to describe the curvature of a sphere without flattening it into a simple 2d circle? That is amusing in and of itself if we have to make earth flat to describe the curvature!
But anyway, if you look at
wiki the curvature of a circle as a length is derived from inverting the radius of the circle, and has nothing to do with area. ie curvature = 1/R Taking the supposed radius of the earth, 6.38 million meters comes out as 5.1424E-07 feet. That doesn't match your meme's numbers? I think they just made up a bunch of stuff to sound good and feed into your hebrew/masonryspiracy?
I'll see if I can work out how curvature of surfaces works and maybe report back later.