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What is the center of the world?

Background

Averaging across all coordinates on land

(this one produces center of world somewhere near Sao Tome and Principe)

Wikipedia method: averaging across all distances between two points of land

  • Hard to get enough compute power to look at all the pairs--distance computation rather expensive
  • Instead looked incrementally from 30 points, to 40, to 50, to 75
  • land mass centers: (9.310344827586206, 31.034482758620697) -> (16.153846153846146, 32.30769230769229) -> (20.204081632653057, 33.06122448979593) ->
  • Moves from South Sudan north into Sudan

Other methods for finding the center of land mass on earth

  • This whole thing is arbitrary: we could change the coordinates and the center would be anywhere!
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