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You'll Never Find Me
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If it's a course due west or due east you chart
Then a crossing of me will not be a part
I span the globe, as schoolchildren are aware
Yet in the real world, you will not find me there
I've no start nor end, but infinite I'm not
A value of zero is all that I got
What am I?
Then a crossing of me will not be a part
I span the globe, as schoolchildren are aware
Yet in the real world, you will not find me there
I've no start nor end, but infinite I'm not
A value of zero is all that I got
What am I?
Answer
the equatorlines 1-2: Any travel "due west or due east" will be parallel to or on the equator, and therefore will not cross the equator.
lines 3-4: Since the equator is an imaginary line, "you will not find" it "in the real world".
lines 5-6: Since the equator encircles the earth, it has "no start nor end". But it is not infinite ("infinite I'm not") because it is measurable, having a specific length. It is the line of latitude with "a value of zero" degrees.
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