I would also think smaller than ararat too. That version of the story is known to be a later revision to whatever event a hypothetical observer would have been describing.
As for the potential volume of water missing in the case of topography being..essentially, a rounding error in whatever the total excess volume of water may be in the everest scenario, that's just an acknowledgement that the earth really is pretty damned smooth. Take a look at a map of a single meter of sea level rise to see how quick conceptual voids in a given volume start to diminish. Mean numbers do not reflect 3d topography. They're an average of the samples of the peaks of mountains, which, at least on earth, descend in volume as they ascend in height.
As for the potential volume of water missing in the case of topography being..essentially, a rounding error in whatever the total excess volume of water may be in the everest scenario, that's just an acknowledgement that the earth really is pretty damned smooth. Take a look at a map of a single meter of sea level rise to see how quick conceptual voids in a given volume start to diminish. Mean numbers do not reflect 3d topography. They're an average of the samples of the peaks of mountains, which, at least on earth, descend in volume as they ascend in height.
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