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Side-effect of flattening a globe
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this post was submitted on 27 Nov 2023
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I wonder if there would be any way to try to quantify the cost of mistakes made by the simple impossibility of accurately projecting a round image onto a flat surface.
You know, people make dumb mistakes because they just forget a conversion or something. People also probably make dumb mistakes because they forget to mentally correct a Mercator projection.
Idk, I think we’ve all seen a 3D model of a globe enough times to not be that surprised by this
We've all done unit conversions too. But that doesn't prevent occasional errors.
Multiply or divide by 10, 100 or 1000 is not that hard.
C'mon, you don't have to rub it in...
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