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255 sats \ 4 replies \ @Undisciplined 23 Sep \ on: [Did You Know] There's always a point on the earth where... math

What if it's not exactly a sphere and the measures are not exactly continuous?

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175 sats \ 3 replies \ @SimpleStacker OP 23 Sep

The measures need to be continuous but it doesn't need to be a sphere. It can be a warped or stretched sphere as long as the space is also continuous.

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42 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 23 Sep

What if the Earth is flat or toroidal?

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55 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker OP 23 Sep

Flat definitely wouldn't work. Using the walking around the equator logic... well that logic breaks if there's no continuous loop.

Not sure about toroidal.

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39 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 23 Sep

My intuition says you'd maintain equivalence of one measure, but maybe not two.

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