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In response to "Irrelevent. The question has to do to with where you're farthest away from where you started? Once you start getting closer, you're not longer at the " by mara

what if someone is born at the South Pole (which has happened)? how do you determine the furthest east/west they ever traveled? -- nm

Posted by loosilu (aka loosilu2) Dec 9 '09, 07:40

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It's just interesting that north/south are absolute constructs, but east/west are relative constructs. -- nm - Dano Dec 9, 07:42 7
- but there is still an absolute upper limit on the distance from your starting point, as opposed to "distance travelled", in either direction. -- nm - znufrii Dec 9, 07:45 5
  - There is no room for interpretation on the question of north/south, but you need more information to answer the question of east/west. - Dano Dec 9, 07:52 4
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      - Math is philosophy. What is zero? -- nm - Dano Dec 9, 08:00 1
        
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      - That's like saying that the mobius strip is unremarkable. :P -- nm - Beryllium Dec 9, 08:00
- that's why we have those two arbitrary meridians. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 07:43
They can't travel east or west at all, can they? Is this a trick question? -- nm - mara Dec 9, 07:41 5
- and the entire point of my original conundrum -- nm - Dano Dec 9, 07:43 3
  - Why? Were any of us born that close to a pole? -- nm - mara Dec 9, 07:51 1
    - You need more info to answer east/west. You need no more info to answer north/south. - Dano Dec 9, 07:56
  - another oddity is that in antarctica, you can walk a few miles and go very far east or west, whereas at the equator it might take thousands of miles. -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 07:45
- of course it's a trick question! -- nm - loosilu Dec 9, 07:42
I hereby exempt such persons from having to answer this poll. :) - znufrii Dec 9, 07:41

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