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Автор: Martin Dawson, James Winterbottom, Martin Thomson
Издательство: McGraw-Hill
Год издания: 2007
isbn: 0072263776
Количество страниц: 360
Язык: english
Формат: CHM
Размер: 10 Мб
Каталожный номер: 44283
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Location is a quantity which is so fundamental that it forms part of the gestalt of every human being. Everyone has an instinctive sense of what is meant by location, and yet if you were to ask for a definition of the term you might be surprised by the varied responses it would elicit. Ask somebody "Where are you now?" and you will get responses ranging from "I'm at home," "I'm in the car," "I'm at 27 Homebay Drive, Watsonia,"-or going to the extreme of subjectivity: "I'm in a state of confusion." In very rare circumstances, somebody may actually reply "I'm 32 degrees south latitude and 150 degrees east longitude…." All of the preceding are potentially correct and are expected responses, depending completely on the context within which the questions were asked. But in discussing location in this book, at least some refinement of the term is needed.
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