Question

You're standing on the planet Earth, which we will assume is a perfect sphere. You walk south 1 mile, east 1 mile, and north 1 mile, and you wind up exactly where you started. Where are you? For extra credit, where else might you be? There are actually many possible locations; see if you can describe them all.

Answer 1

near the poles.

Answer 2

more like a tiny trangle with a vertex at the pole.

Answer 3

any formulae

Answer 4

a formula?? i'm thinking of walking along a longitude, then a latitude and then along a longitude back to where we started out.

Answer 5

do u want to know the answer

Answer 6

n.pole

Answer 7

if the earth is a uniform sphere then virtually anywhere would do, provided you appropriately define.. north south & east. or else the poles.

Answer 8

Your starting location is 1 + 1/(2πn) miles north of the south pole

Answer 9

yes
how did you get it