Felix
Calculate how much land Felix Baumgartner saw after jumping from 36 km above the ground. The radius of the Earth is R = 6378 km.
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- square root
- rounding
- solid geometry
- sphere
- spherical cap
- planimetrics
- Pythagorean theorem
- area of a shape
- triangle
- basic functions
- percentages
- goniometry and trigonometry
- sine
- cosine
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