Re: analytical Skill for Java Development

Hi,

Andrea Desole wrote:
Hint: Go south a mile, travel around the world a few times, go north a mile.

This would imply that you are able, one mile from the north pole (or somewhere in the world), to travel around the world in less than one mile. I'm not sure it's possible.

No, the idea is the following:

About 1300 meters from the S pole (P0), you can go 1000m towards south pole (P1). If you walk 1000 m towars east, you will stand again at point P1. If you now go 1000 m north, you will be at qour start-point P0.

This also works when the "diameter" (sorry, I'm not sure if this is the correct word in English) of the earth at point P1 is 500 m or 333m or 250m...

Ciao,
Ingo

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