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You'll Never Find Me
Riddle
Riddles are little poems or phrases that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a requirement.Riddle
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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Fun riddle. Could have stood on the first two lines alone, but I'm always happy to see what interesting rhymes and allusions TFF has to offer, so the longer riddle made me happy.
Thanks Snowdog.
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