It's probably not worth discussing if the athmosphere's thickness, when reducing the earth to the size of a chicken's egg is equal to the chicken shell of 1/5 of it, given the rather vague definition of the athmosphere's thickness. However, I just told this fact to my 9yo daughter, who is not very mathematically inclined. She instantly took an involuntary deep breath. She was impressed! Thank you, and happy Easter! Dirk On Sun, 12 Apr 2020 09:05:06 -0400 James Propp <jamespropp@gmail.com> wrote:
I've put a draft of my upcoming Mathematical Enchantments essay on the web at
http://mathenchant.org/060-draft4.pdf
Comments are welcome!
Thanks,
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