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Kansas Is Flatter Than a Pancake
2. Department of Geography, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
In this report, we apply basic scientific techniques to answer the question
“Is Kansas as flat as a pancake?”
1
While driving across the American Midwest, it is common to hear travelers
remark, “This state is as flat as a pancake.” To the authors,
this adage seems to qualitatively capture some characteristic of a topographic
geodetic survey
2. This obvious question
“how flat is a pancake” spurned our analytical interest, and
we set out to find the ‘flatness’ of both a pancake and one