On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Kadal Amutham <[email protected]> wrote: > The thickness of a CD is 1.2mm. If 40 million CDs are stacked one over the > other, it will reach a height of 48KM ( 1.2 mm x 40000000 / 1000 ) in > meter. It will be taller than the tallest mount Everest by 4 times. This is
That is a good one, thanks. I'll add it to the post. -Rob > close to highest altitude achieved by a jet plane. ( Kindly recheck the > calculation ) > > With Warm Regards > > V.Kadal Amutham > 919444360480 > 914422396480 > > > On 1 March 2013 19:43, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=apache_openoffice_40_mllion_downloads >> >> We're at 39,695,540 right now, so we should hit 40m before Monday. >> I'll hold the post until them. >> >> If anyone has any other good analogies or visualizations of 40m let me >> know. >> >> -Rob >>
