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On 29/04/2014 23:42, emile wrote:
> On 04/29/2014 01:16 PM, Adam Funk wrote:
>
>> "A man pitches his tent, walks 1 km south, walks 1 km east, kills a
>> bear, & walks 1 km north, where he's back at his tent.  What color is
>> the bear?"  ;-)
>
>  From how many locations on Earth can someone walk one mile south, one
> mile east, and one mile north and end up at their starting point?
>
> Emile
>

Haven't you heard of The Triangular Earth Society?

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My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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