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XKCD's Bad Map Projection: ABS(Longitude) (imgs.xkcd.com)
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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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[–] bleistift2@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

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