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| | "more than a quintillion times smaller" that's short scale quintillion, right? | | "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) | | [[User:Kventin|Kventin]] ([[User talk:Kventin|talk]]) 08:04, 3 July 2019 (UTC) |
| − | :...and it's ambiguous otherwise. Depends entirely upon what one understands as "one time smaller" (or even if you can have a meaningful "zero times smaller", if you prefer) before you start to further multiply the smallerness by incrementing the factorisation. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.76|141.101.98.76]] 00:57, 6 July 2019 (UTC)
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| | <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> | | <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> |
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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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| − | :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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| − | 2010s: you're talking about a zeitgeist<br/>
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| − | 2016: you're talking about a piece of culture and how it fits in that zeitgeist<br/>
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| − | 2016 Q4: you're talking about a likely release date in the future<br/>
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| − | 2016 Nov: you're doing accounting<br/>
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| − | 2016 Nov 08: you're talking about a specific historic event<br/>
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| − | 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<br/>
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| − | 2016 Nov 08 01:41 PM: you're writing a play-by-play<br/>
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| − | 2016 Nov 08 01:41:42 PM: you're checking out the date for an online comment<br/>
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| − | 2016 Nov 08 01:41:42.135 PM: you're optimistic about your computer's ability to sync to a webserver<br/>
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| − | 2016 Nov 08 01:41:42.135623 PM: you're probably filming with an expensive slow-mo camera<br/>
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| − | 2016 Nov 08 01:41:42.135623730 PM: you're probably doing something space-related
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| − | [[Special:Contributions/172.69.190.4|172.69.190.4]] 20:54, 12 July 2019 (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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| − | 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. {{unsigned ip|162.158.146.180|18:50, 9 January 2024}}
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