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blueman wrote:

"Stormin Mormon" writes:

I'm remembering the old joke about how to calcuate the
height of a building, using a barometer.

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Wow - I was thinking the exact same thing and it's been about 33 years
since my junior high math teacher gave us that routine... It is one of
my all-time favorites.

As I recall, there were *several* possibilities, none of which relied on
barometric pressure calculations. I've only got three in mind now, but I
think there were more.