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If you ask a room full of fifty people to explain what is meant by the “100-year flood” you will probably get as many different answers. In fact, I know… Click to show full abstract
If you ask a room full of fifty people to explain what is meant by the “100-year flood” you will probably get as many different answers. In fact, I know you will get at least three because that is the number of responses I got when I asked the question of my undergraduate fluid mechanics course on the first day of class last semester. The first student wondered if it described the largest flood level that had occurred in the past 100 years. The second student supposed it was the largest flood event that could be expected in the next 100 years. The third student guessed that it was
Journal Title: Notices of the American Mathematical Society
Year Published: 2019
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