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How many places on earth can you travel 1 mile south, 1 mile west, then 1 mile north, and then end up at the exact same spot in which you started?

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How many places on earth can you travel 1 mile north, 1 mile east, then 1 mile south, and then end up at the exact same spot in which you started?
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How many places on earth can you travel 1 mile south, 1 mile west, then 1 mile north, and then end up at the exact same spot in which you started?
The same single place I can shake Santa's hand.

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How many places on earth can you travel 1 mile north, 1 mile east, then 1 mile south, and then end up at the exact same spot in which you started?
The same single place where, when you start, you can never go south.
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Old Wed Mar 16, 2011, 02:44pm
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Okay, how about this one.
How many points can you travel 1 mile south, one mile north, one mile east, and end up where you started?
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Okay, how about this one.
How many points can you travel 1 mile south, one mile north, one mile east, and end up where you started?
The West Pole?
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Okay, how about this one.
How many points can you travel 1 mile south, one mile north, one mile east, and end up where you started?
Any point south of the north pole such that 1 mile is an integer multiple (including 1) of the circumference of the circle of latitude. If it is more than one, you'll pass the point before returning to it at the end of the mile.
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Any point south of the north pole such that 1 mile is an integer multiple (including 1) of the circumference of the circle of latitude. If it is more than one, you'll pass the point before returning to it at the end of the mile.
That'll work, too, but there's another set of points that works as well.
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How many places on earth can you travel 1 mile south, 1 mile west, then 1 mile north, and then end up at the exact same spot in which you started?
The same place you could put my wife and tell her to go south and she'd be guaranteed to get the directions right.
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The same place you could put my wife and tell her to go south and she'd be guaranteed to get the directions right.
Incorrect.
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