Math is hard (even for google)!

Breaking down 47.000000 degrees into degrees, minutes, and seconds, google comes up with the bizarre "59 minute and 60 seconds of a degree". Floating-point round-off somewhere? Probably. Update, March 24, 2008: The bug is half-fixed. Today, Google displays +47° 0' 0.00", -119° 59' 60.00" as the coordinates of this location.

Entry first conceived on 23 January 2008, 16:36 UTC, last modified on 15 January 2012, 3:46 UTC
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