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    If the walls of an exceptionally tall or wide building are exactly vertical, can they be made precisely parallel (explain)?

    Question #24055. Asked by Impress us. (Nov 07 02 10:52 PM)


    Friar Tuck

    		The curvature of the Earth would mean that two vertical walls would get further apart as you get further above the Earth's surface. To make them parallel would mean that one or both would not be exactly vertical.

    Nov 07 02, 11:19 PM

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