Re: Debian Centre of Mass
"Karl E. Jorgensen" <karl@jorgensen.com> wrote:
>On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 06:34:26PM +0200, Edward Betts wrote:
>> To find the centre of mass, we took the list of developers' coordinates
>> from the Debian Developer World Map[1], and ran it through an awk script.
>> Turns out that Debian's Centre of mass is at longitude -38.06 and latitude
>> +63.42, just off the coast of Greenland.
>
>Are you saying that Debian's centre of mass is at the surface?
>I would have expected to find it a few hundred km's down !?
The guys involved projected it onto the surface to try to get the point
on the surface of the Earth with the least total distance to all
developers (at, least I think that works out as the same thing).
(UK centre of mass in Cambridge, near enough. Now there's a surprise, I
don't think ...)
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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