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by T-hawk
5332 days ago
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That the avenues converge is your assumption. The avenues may not be geodesics. They may be parallel small circles. Manhattan is of course a region on the surface of a sphere, but the avenues could behave either way. Throwing together that promised trigonometry, with some approximations (using round numbers, ignoring the oblateness of the sphere, ignoring the skew of Manhattan's grid from due north-south): 40° = approx latitude of Manhattan's south end
40.27° = approx latitude of Manhattan's other end 30 km north
40000 km * cos(40°) = circumference of the 40° parallel
40000 km * cos(40.27°) = circumference of the 40.27° parallel
0.996 = ratio of the distance between avenues at the north end compared to the south
300 m = assumed approximate distance between avenues at the south end
298.8 m = expected distance between avenues at the north end
If the avenues are geodesics, they should be 1.2m closer to each other at the north end of Manhattan than the south end. Unfortunately a difference that small is probably essentially noise and below statistical significance to actually measure; the width of a sidewalk or a bicycle lane. |
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