From the nimble fingers of tedd@... (tedd@...) (30/3/2001
3:49 PM) came...

> based on computing the location on the surface of an oblate spheroid?
> 
> tedd

The earth is flat (as you well know, and it, in America, weighs 468,000
slugs and is 9438 cubits across) which explains why 1/cos(lat) approaches
infinity at the edges of the world: the overflow flag goes up just as you
fall over the edge.
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