By “smoothing out” I mean flattening all mountains and filling all trenches so that the entire earth has exactly the same radius everwhere. Water naturally spreads out equally on such a surface, so how high would the water level be?

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    I’m fine with imperial units, as long as somebody stays in one unit system and doesn’t mix miles, yards, feet and inches, or square miles and acres, etc.

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      Yeah, I’m fluent in what you listed too… but everything you listed is just meters in metric so that’s five-ish conversions to needlessly need to know. And if you start using equations in then standard units play up a lot like when diving with imperial units you measure depth in feet but pressure in pounds per square inch so you have an awkward feet to inch right there and the equations are just more complicated. Anything beside the simple gets compounding unit conversions. And the countries left in the world that only use imperial are the US, Myanmar and Liberia.