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
