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XKCD's Bad Map Projection: ABS(Longitude) (imgs.xkcd.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/mapporn
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For non mathematicians, ABS() returns the absolute (i.e. positive) value of a number, e.g. abs(5) = 5 = abs(-5)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This way, should the US and Russia want to nuke each other, they can just throw the plutonium instead of building these annoying missiles.

[–] Diprount_Tomato -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

First of all, the US doesn't even exist here, it's just the cities

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What’s second? Don’t start a list if you stop after 1!

[–] night_of_knee 1 points 1 year ago

Unexpected factorial