Talk:2170: Coordinate Precision - Revision history

141.101.99.131 at 19:05, 9 January 2024

2024-01-09T19:05:23Z

162.158.146.180: Something I noticed

2024-01-09T18:50:21Z

Something I noticed

Lupo at 07:14, 10 June 2020

2020-06-10T07:14:01Z

162.158.214.148: Google knows when you're sleeping It knows when you're awake It knows if you've been bad or good So be good for goodness sake

2019-07-28T14:21:34Z

Google knows when you're sleeping It knows when you're awake It knows if you've been bad or good So be good for goodness sake

172.69.190.16: addition

2019-07-12T21:37:05Z

addition

172.69.190.4: formatting

2019-07-12T20:54:51Z

formatting

172.69.190.4 at 20:54, 12 July 2019

2019-07-12T20:54:01Z

172.68.245.193 at 06:39, 8 July 2019

2019-07-08T06:39:31Z

IByte: Geocaching

2019-07-06T11:37:13Z

Geocaching

141.101.98.76 at 00:57, 6 July 2019

2019-07-06T00:57:10Z

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	Someone just corrected that GPS coordinates do not cover square but rectangular areas. Now I am wondering: Is that correct? wouldn't the areas be slightly wider at the base closest to the equator, than on the base closes to the nearest pole? Or does this still qualify as rectangular, since the angles are 90° on the surface? Also: are all rectangles, when defined by the same amount of digits, the same size? or are they smaller close to the poles? (If I do not have something fundamentally wrong in my mind they would need to be either much smaller or more overlapping, close to the poles?) --[[User:Lupo\|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo\|talk]]) 07:14, 10 June 2020 (UTC)		Someone just corrected that GPS coordinates do not cover square but rectangular areas. Now I am wondering: Is that correct? wouldn't the areas be slightly wider at the base closest to the equator, than on the base closes to the nearest pole? Or does this still qualify as rectangular, since the angles are 90° on the surface? Also: are all rectangles, when defined by the same amount of digits, the same size? or are they smaller close to the poles? (If I do not have something fundamentally wrong in my mind they would need to be either much smaller or more overlapping, close to the poles?) --[[User:Lupo\|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo\|talk]]) 07:14, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

−	Anyone else notice the longitude starts giving the digits of pi? 68309(4159265358) just missing the 3.1.	+	Anyone else notice the longitude starts giving the digits of pi? 68309(4159265358) just missing the 3.1. {{unsigned ip\|162.158.146.180\|18:50, 9 January 2024}}

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	Someone just corrected that GPS coordinates do not cover square but rectangular areas. Now I am wondering: Is that correct? wouldn't the areas be slightly wider at the base closest to the equator, than on the base closes to the nearest pole? Or does this still qualify as rectangular, since the angles are 90° on the surface? Also: are all rectangles, when defined by the same amount of digits, the same size? or are they smaller close to the poles? (If I do not have something fundamentally wrong in my mind they would need to be either much smaller or more overlapping, close to the poles?) --[[User:Lupo\|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo\|talk]]) 07:14, 10 June 2020 (UTC)		Someone just corrected that GPS coordinates do not cover square but rectangular areas. Now I am wondering: Is that correct? wouldn't the areas be slightly wider at the base closest to the equator, than on the base closes to the nearest pole? Or does this still qualify as rectangular, since the angles are 90° on the surface? Also: are all rectangles, when defined by the same amount of digits, the same size? or are they smaller close to the poles? (If I do not have something fundamentally wrong in my mind they would need to be either much smaller or more overlapping, close to the poles?) --[[User:Lupo\|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo\|talk]]) 07:14, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
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		+	Anyone else notice the longitude starts giving the digits of pi? 68309(4159265358) just missing the 3.1.

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	Before I came here I started a Google search on the Latitude and Longitude - Google offered up the correct Longitude as I entered the Latitude. Just interesting, not surprising.		Before I came here I started a Google search on the Latitude and Longitude - Google offered up the correct Longitude as I entered the Latitude. Just interesting, not surprising.
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		+	Someone just corrected that GPS coordinates do not cover square but rectangular areas. Now I am wondering: Is that correct? wouldn't the areas be slightly wider at the base closest to the equator, than on the base closes to the nearest pole? Or does this still qualify as rectangular, since the angles are 90° on the surface? Also: are all rectangles, when defined by the same amount of digits, the same size? or are they smaller close to the poles? (If I do not have something fundamentally wrong in my mind they would need to be either much smaller or more overlapping, close to the poles?) --[[User:Lupo\|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo\|talk]]) 07:14, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

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		+	Before I came here I started a Google search on the Latitude and Longitude - Google offered up the correct Longitude as I entered the Latitude. Just interesting, not surprising.

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 Nov 08 01:41:42 PM: you're checking out the date for an online comment<br/>
 Nov 08 01:41:42.135 PM: you're optimistic about your computer's ability to sync to a webserver<br/>
 Nov 08 01:41:42.135623730 PM: you're probably doing something space-related
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 '''What the number of digits in your time means'''
-s: you're talking about a zeitgeist
+s: you're talking about a zeitgeist<br/>
-: you're talking about a piece of culture and how it fits in that zeitgeist
+: you're talking about a piece of culture and how it fits in that zeitgeist<br/>
-Q4: you're talking about a likely release date in the future
+Q4: you're talking about a likely release date in the future<br/>
-Nov: you're doing accounting
+Nov: you're doing accounting<br/>
-Nov 08: you're talking about a specific historic event
+Nov 08: you're talking about a specific historic event<br/>
-Nov 08 01:30 PM: you're talking about an event to gather for, but since you didn't include timezone information, we can't tell when
+Nov 08 01:30 PM: you're talking about an event to gather for, but since you didn't include timezone information, we can't tell when<br/>
-Nov 08 01:41 PM: you're writing a play-by-play
+Nov 08 01:41 PM: you're writing a play-by-play<br/>
-Nov 08 01:41:42 PM: you're checking out the date for an online comment
+Nov 08 01:41:42 PM: you're checking out the date for an online comment<br/>
-Nov 08 01:41:42.135 PM: you're optimistic about your computer's ability to sync to a webserver
+Nov 08 01:41:42.135 PM: you're optimistic about your computer's ability to sync to a webserver<br/>
 Nov 08 01:41:42.135623730 PM: you're probably doing something space-related
 [[Special:Contributions/172.69.190.4|172.69.190.4]] 20:54, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

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	Then of course there's N 47° 38.938 W 122° 20.887 - You're probably a [[wikipedia:Geocaching\|geocacher]] (Which always uses the GPS standard WGS84 datum, by the way, so that's that problem solved). --[[User:IByte\|IByte]] ([[User talk:IByte\|talk]]) 11:37, 6 July 2019 (UTC)		Then of course there's N 47° 38.938 W 122° 20.887 - You're probably a [[wikipedia:Geocaching\|geocacher]] (Which always uses the GPS standard WGS84 datum, by the way, so that's that problem solved). --[[User:IByte\|IByte]] ([[User talk:IByte\|talk]]) 11:37, 6 July 2019 (UTC)
	:I was actually surprised there was no reference to [[426\|geohashing]] here. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.245.193\|172.68.245.193]] 06:39, 8 July 2019 (UTC)		:I was actually surprised there was no reference to [[426\|geohashing]] here. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.245.193\|172.68.245.193]] 06:39, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
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		+	'''What the number of digits in your time means'''
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		+	2010s: you're talking about a zeitgeist
		+	2016: you're talking about a piece of culture and how it fits in that zeitgeist
		+	2016 Q4: you're talking about a likely release date in the future
		+	2016 Nov: you're doing accounting
		+	2016 Nov 08: you're talking about a specific historic event
		+	2016 Nov 08 01:30 PM: you're talking about an event to gather for, but since you didn't include timezone information, we can't tell when
		+	2016 Nov 08 01:41 PM: you're writing a play-by-play
		+	2016 Nov 08 01:41:42 PM: you're checking out the date for an online comment
		+	2016 Nov 08 01:41:42.135 PM: you're optimistic about your computer's ability to sync to a webserver
		+	2016 Nov 08 01:41:42.135623730 PM: you're probably doing something space-related
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	Then of course there's N 47° 38.938 W 122° 20.887 - You're probably a [[wikipedia:Geocaching\|geocacher]] (Which always uses the GPS standard WGS84 datum, by the way, so that's that problem solved). --[[User:IByte\|IByte]] ([[User talk:IByte\|talk]]) 11:37, 6 July 2019 (UTC)		Then of course there's N 47° 38.938 W 122° 20.887 - You're probably a [[wikipedia:Geocaching\|geocacher]] (Which always uses the GPS standard WGS84 datum, by the way, so that's that problem solved). --[[User:IByte\|IByte]] ([[User talk:IByte\|talk]]) 11:37, 6 July 2019 (UTC)
		+	:I was actually surprised there was no reference to [[426\|geohashing]] here. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.245.193\|172.68.245.193]] 06:39, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

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	Also the table at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_degrees is similar to the comic, and predates it by at least a year. Not sure how or if that should be included in the explanation.[[Special:Contributions/172.68.58.149\|172.68.58.149]] 23:53, 4 July 2019 (UTC)		Also the table at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_degrees is similar to the comic, and predates it by at least a year. Not sure how or if that should be included in the explanation.[[Special:Contributions/172.68.58.149\|172.68.58.149]] 23:53, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
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		+	Then of course there's N 47° 38.938 W 122° 20.887 - You're probably a [[wikipedia:Geocaching\|geocacher]] (Which always uses the GPS standard WGS84 datum, by the way, so that's that problem solved). --[[User:IByte\|IByte]] ([[User talk:IByte\|talk]]) 11:37, 6 July 2019 (UTC)

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 "more than a quintillion times smaller" that's short scale quintillion, right?
 [[User:Kventin|Kventin]] ([[User talk:Kventin|talk]]) 08:04, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
 <q>This is probably a reference to the fact that persons are animate, and different persons can occupy the same position at different times.</q>