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I was working on the map of the planet tonight, calculating measurements. I have drawn it on grid paper (made it mahself in Word), onto a matrix of 36 squares by 18. Obviously, this is to work out the “degrees” of the sphere. I have also been laboring under the design assumption that the squares are 720 miles each side. This gives me a planet with a tidy circumference of 25,920 miles. Immediately, I began to see my problem. The longitude is only comprised of eighteen squares, for a total …