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I don't think that's what you meant to say. Equipotential surfaces ARE smooth:
"Equipotential surfaces cover the Earth like the layers
of an onion; they do not cross each other nor are
they parallel to each other, except as a first
approximation. They are continuous (ie, they do
not have any breaks), they have no sharp edges and
are convex everywhere with smoothly varying radii
of curvature."
They are, however, irregular, unlike the ellipsoid.

-- Richard Langley 

On Monday, December 23, 2013,357, at 4:23 PM, Frank Reed wrote:

> the Earth's equipotential surfaces are not smooth

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