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Correction for the height of Mount Everest

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How long is 64 centimeters?
It's about one-fifteen-thousandth as tall as Mount Everest
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The height of Mount Everest is about 884,886 centimeters.
(a.k.a. Mount Chomolungma, a.k.a. Sagarmatha, a.k.a. Mount Qomolangma, a.k.a. सगरमाथा, a.k.a. Chajamlungma, a.k.a. ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ, a.k.a. 珠穆朗玛峰, a.k.a. Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng) (Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal and Tibet, China) (to summit, excluding snow depth)
Mount Everest rises 884,886 centimeters above sea level at its summit. The plate tectonics of the Indian subcontinent continuously alter the mountain's peak — raising it by 0.40 centimeters and shifting it to the northeast by 0.450 centimeters each year.
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