-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de <sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de> Date: Monday, July 19, 1999 6:16 Subject: Re: Lonely man.
>I'm going to toss my guess into the ring. The lonely man must live at one of >the poles, and since the gnomon on a sundial is equal to the local latitude, >I believe it is 90°. And incidently he isn't lonely, he has all those elves >to keep him company ;) >~psyko~ > 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. : - ) 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
