[extropy-chat] Surviving a flood...

[Alan Eliasen]

Alan Eliasen wrote:
>      I know that Everest is growing slowly, (best estimates are 2.4
> inches/year) so we'll discount for that.  (It makes very little
> difference in any case.)  I'm using my "Frink" calculating tool (
> http://futureboy.homeip.net/frinkdocs/ ) to find out what this comes out
> to.  In Frink notation, this is:

>     floodvolume = 4 pi earthradius2 depth

   Correction--in the cut-n-paste, I lost an exponentiation symbol.
This should read

   floodvolume = 4 pi earthradius^2 depth

   The rest is correct Frink notation.

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