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0 pointsfoobar19624y ago0 comments

Assuming a spherical earth in a vacuum... One of the few times that simplifying assumption matches reality.

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Not quite; the Earth is an oblate spheroid. Assuming it's a sphere is certainly a close enough approximation for this exercise, though.

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0 pointsfoobar19624y ago0 comments

Assuming a spherical earth in a vacuum... One of the few times that simplifying assumption matches reality.

Not quite; the Earth is an oblate spheroid. Assuming it's a sphere is certainly a close enough approximation for this exercise, though.

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