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- From: kanad@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Kanad Chakraborty)
- Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
- Subject: Re: "map" of USA
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.154526.24491@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 15:45:26 GMT
- References: <19692.2b617217@ecs.umass.edu>
- Sender: news@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Mr. News)
- Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor
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- In article <19692.2b617217@ecs.umass.edu> padmanab@ecs.umass.edu writes:
- >Suppose you have two maps of USA of different
- >scales. Now you place the smaller map inside
- >the bigger map such that it falls completely
- >within it.
-
- This is possible only if you don't include Alaska and Hawaii, and
- consider only the continental landmass that lies between Canada and
- Mexico.
-
- >
- >Condider each point on the map to be a distinct
- >city!!
- >
- >QUESTION: Are there any city/cities on the
- >smaller map which will coincide with the
- >city/cities on the bigger map? If so why?
- >
-
- Yes, if the larger map can be regarded as a projection of the smaller one
- -- this causes the point of projection to represent the same city in both
- maps. (Assumption : Alaska and Hawaii have not been considered.)
-
- >-Prasad Padmanabhan
- >Dept. of ECE
- >University of Massachusetts
- >Amherst, MA-01003
-
- Kanad Chakraborty
-