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> neogodless: <snip> At least in the U.S. below a certain longitude is quite common. Latitude.
by discors 4mo ago
> neogodless: <snip> At least in the U.S. below a certain longitude is quite common.
Latitude.
- neogodless 4mo agoI KNEW I was going to get that wrong.
- bobthepanda 4mo agoThe mnemonic i use is latitude is flat.
- rkomorn 4mo agoI was going to ask if you were making a joke or just too tired to spell mnemonic correctly, but they would've been pneumatic, not pneumonic. Edit: oh, boo, you fixed it.
- bobthepanda 4mo agoHadn’t had the morning coffee yet.
- neogodless 4mo agoI usually say to myself "ladder" and that helps. But this time I slipped. Rough morning. Wheels fell off on the way to work.
- DangitBobby 4mo agolatitude -> flatitude
- mtklein 4mo agoI hate to admit it, but the Corona "Change your Latitude" ads are what locked it in for me.
- bobthepanda 4mo agoAs they say, if it works it’s not stupid.
- amanaplanacanal 4mo agoHa! Mine is the Jimmy Buffett song.
- dec0dedab0de 4mo agoI say longitude goes longways, which I know isn't accurate except fairly close to the poles, but I remembered it like that when I was a kid and it stuck.
- triceratops 4mo agoLatitude is the only one that matters between the two.
- yread 4mo agoLongitude is also twice as long - 360 vs 180 degrees
- BobaFloutist 4mo agoIt's counterintuitive because the prefix refers to the lines, but we're usually describing points along the lines. We know intuitively that "lateral" is side to side, and "long/length" we would expect to be vertical, but that describes where the lines sit, and the measurements are perpendicular to where the lines sit: you choose a horizontal line to describe a height(/length), and a vertical one to describe width. So just remember that it's opposite to intuition, which will work until you've gotten comfortable enough that your intuition is correct and will then guide you exactly opposite.
- mikestew 4mo agoI use Jimmy Buffet’s song “Changes in Latitude, Changes in Attitude”, meaning head south to Key West to change your attitude. Ergo, latitude is north/south. EDIT: ninja’ed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48065792 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48065792
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- raverbashing 4mo agoEasier mnemonic: Lots of wines advertise their latitude of origin Longitudes are meaningless for wines
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