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rogerw@cisco.com (Roger M. Wilcox) wrote:

>In article <O1iblelgYjV9079yn@calvados.apna.org.au> shelter@calvados.apana.org.au (Madhudvisa) writes:
>>
>>   As for diametrically opposite points, remember for this exercise we
>>   are talking about a flat plate not a sphere. For our model to find
>>   the diametrically opposite point you start at the original point
>>   and travel through the centre (which we are now taking as the North
>>   Pole) for the distance of the radius of the circle. If it is midday
>>   at our original point it will be midnight at the opposite point. So
>>   now we have opposite points for everything except the North Pole --
>>   the opposite point is not a point but it is the circumference of
>>   the circle.
>       [snip]
>>   to flatten out the Northern Hemisphere and just let the Southern
>>   bits stick out over the edges.. ie: South Africa and South America
>>   just stick out as we have observed them and you put Australia out
>>   there somewhere, throw in a few little islands and you've got it.


This was an exercise in lateral thinking... I thought everyone understood
that by now. After all the original posting did start with "Just
imagine..." (the original article is so old... you must have a serious
problem with your newsfeed! :-)



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