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Surveyors mark 4 points on the globe's surface so their distances are the same. What is their distance from each other?
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Theme - problem of a tetrahedron (4 vertices). The sphere - circumsphere (Earth) is described by this tetrahedron and we are looking from its radius to the side length. From formula.
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