http://blogs.msdn.com/isaac/archive/2009/07/09/the-sphere-is-finite.aspxHi Folks, The title of this post states the obvious: the area of a sphere is finite.  We even have a nice formula for it, 4πr 2 .  The same is true for an ellipsoid, which is just a sat-upon sphere, although computing the area gets more complicateden-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)