Kansas Flatter Than a Pancake?
In this report, we apply basic scientific techniques to answer the question "Is Kansas as flat as a pancake?For the startling answer and the methodology used to arrive at it, please refer to the house scientists at The Annals of Improbable Research.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
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 particular state: Kansas.
Figure 1. (a)A well-cooked pancake; and (b)Kansas.
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