O.K., I'll concede that the "thingy" is Santa's gnomon. But riddle me this.....what characteristic does Santa's horizontal dial have that no other horizontal dial in the northern hemisphere has, but every horizontal dial in the southern hemisphere has except one at the south pole?
Charlles (Hey! My name looks pretty cool with two ell's, just as in "diallist" : ) -----Original Message----- From: Dave Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Charles Gann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, July 20, 1999 1:22 Subject: Re: Lonely man. >On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Charles Gann wrote: > >> Come on now you guys! Everybody knows that the Red & White striped barber >> pole thingy is at the North Pole! Santa couldn't put his dial there so he >> put it a little south of the pole making the angle slightly less than 90 >> deg. : - ) > >"Thingy"? That *is* Santa's gnomon! > >> Okay, a little tougher now. I just thought of this so I haven't worked out >> the answer. Of all the other people on Earth who *can* do the >> North-East-South journey.....at what latitude do the people live who would >> travel the furthest on their journey? >> >> Assume the Earth to be a perfect sphere, 8000 miles in diameter. >> >> Charles > >Latitude -90, discarding the trivial solution of "Walk 0 miles North..." >>From -90, you'd have to walk to the latitude of central Finland (+64.57), >some 10791 miles, then circumnavigate on the parallel, for a total of >around 21582 miles! > >Dave > >
