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From: Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
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Subject: Re: Significant digits in a float?
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 20:14:56 +1200
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Chris Angelico wrote:

> Any point where the mile east takes you an exact number of times
> around the globe. So, anywhere exactly one mile north of that, which
> is a number of circles not far from the south pole.

True, but there are no bears in Antarctica, so that
rules out all the south-pole solutions.

I think there are still multiple solutions, though.
The bear may have been spray-painted by activists
trying to protect it from polar trophy hunters.

-- 
Greg