Correction for the height of Mount Everest
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How wide is 624 cubits?
It's about one-thirtieth as tall as Mount Everest
The height of Mount Everest is about 19,354.50 cubits.
(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 8,848.86 m above sea level at its summit. The plate tectonics of the Indian subcontinent continuously alter the mountain's peak — raising it by 4 mm and shifting it to the northeast by 4.5 mm each year.