On Thu, 01 May 2014 09:34:35 -0700, emile wrote: > On 04/30/2014 11:21 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2014-04-29, emile <em...@fenx.com> wrote: >>> On 04/29/2014 01:16 PM, Adam Funk wrote: >>> >>>> "A man pitches his tent, walks 1 km south, walks 1 km east, kills a >>>> bear, & walks 1 km north, where he's back at his tent. What color is >>>> the bear?" ;-) >>> >>> From how many locations on Earth can someone walk one mile south, >>> one >>> mile east, and one mile north and end up at their starting point? >> >> I'm pretty sure there are places in London like that. At least that's >> what it seemed like to somebody from the midwestern US where the >> streets are layed out on a grid. > > I was going to bring up London, but as I recall from my brief visit > there, I wasn't sure you could go one mile straight in any direction. > > :) > > Emile
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