Strewth Guys and Gals,
Get A Life, and Encarta World Atlas, and spend your lunchtime playing with some great
circles.....
Then assume that, as this is a newspaper question, Marilyn isnt going to come up with
an answer that says "300 metres north of the intersection of route xx and route yy, on
a bearing of zz degrees........"
Some sophisticated analysis gets me to Topeca, Kansas.
Then again, maybe she's measuring over hills and down ocean trenches; maybe I've
missed the joke; maybe life's too short to bother anyway!
Enough, already.
Rgds,
Brian Forrester
Wood Mackenzie
Edinburgh
> Here's an interesting mapping problem that was in this Sunday's
> "Ask Marilyn" (newspaper) column.
>
> Say you come upon a sign that says the following:
> Paris 4658 miles
> Moscow 5438 miles
> Tel Aviv 6681 miles
> Hong Kong 7878 miles
> Sydney 8746 miles
> Johannesburg 9092 miles
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