It means exactly what it says and I know why you are having difficulty. I gave the same answers as you did the first time. No tricks, just geography. There that's the biggest hint you could ask for. If you can't get it, look on a map, I did.
This is a famous trivia question in contests aboard cruise ships.
This is a famous trivia question in contests aboard cruise ships.
Interesting. Wikipedia has the eastermost incorrect. If you want to cheat, I recommend this link:
most northern southern eastern and western states of america
most northern southern eastern and western states of america
Radius of earth is Re. Length of string is 2piRe (or whatever!)
Radius of raised string is (Re + 1cm)
length of that string is 2piRe + 2picm
therefore difference in strings is (2piRe + 2pi cm - 2pi Re)=2pi cm.
Good question, very counterintuitive.
(check my maths tho haha, the reasoning is correct)
Oops, plastic got it first, just realised what looks like an n to me without glasses is prob pi.
It took so long to find on this Windows 7 machine. I was mortified to find the top bar has lost its wiggle. What happened to extended ascii?
It's quite an instructive problem. The relationship between radius and circumference is linear, so simple superposition applies. Counterintuitive perhaps because our conception of the size of a circle is more related to area than to radius or circumference.
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That's Palatino. This editor ignores the typeface of imported text, so I changed the font after pasting.
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