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From Seattle move in a straight line due East. What country will you hit?
- sparker72678 3y agoTitle here, "From Seattle move in a straight line due East. What country will you hit?" is subtly different from what the article is describing: "From Seattle, face due East. Now, continue forward in a straight line..."
- nicolashahn 3y agoHow does this change the meaning and answer?
- williamjackson 3y agoIn my mind, "move in a straight line due east" can be interpreted as "for as long as you are moving, your movement should be due east". In that case, your latitude will never change. In the northern hemisphere, you will constantly be making a leftward adjustment to maintain a due east heading.
- sangupta 3y ago+1 That was my understanding reading the title.
- DaveExeter 3y agoI was going to guess Spain but the correct answer is France.
- LammyL 3y agoShouldn’t the answer be Canada?
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- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y agoIf we're going by a "simple interpretation" of the submitted title I'm pretty sure it's Canada. But the article actually says you'll hit "another country" after you leave North America. Which is more or less true but the use of "another" seems to be confusing a continent for a country. I guess due South would be Canada and due North would be USA by that measure.
- DaveExeter 3y agoThat's correct you will hit Canada long before France! I guess it is because I think of Canada as a freak American state. Upper America, not an independent country.
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- ThePowerOfFuet 3y agoCanada, then France. The supposed answer, Australia, is entirely divorced from reality.
- happytoexplain 3y agoA strangely curt denial. Obviously the salient idea is that the intersection between spherical coordinates and two-dimensional coordinates creates two human interpretations for the phrase "head East in a straight line from point X". A line can start East and be straight both locally and globally, or it can maintain East and be straight only locally and not globally. In the first, you hit Australia, and in the second, France. Neither are in the slightest "divorced from reality".
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoYou would hit Canada no? Windsor and Toronto are both far south of Seattle. I don’t understand the trick here.
- outside1234 3y agoGoing to make this my next interview question