How Does It Know Where You Are?

CCE 114 · Day 6 — The Global Positioning System
Eight questions in three parts: how a receiver turns a radio signal into a position, what the digits of a coordinate are actually worth, and where the error comes from.

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For Thursday:
Record every digit your phone gives you — five decimals or more
Keep the minus sign on the longitude
Stand in the open, away from the building wall
Degrees for storing and sharing; projected meters for measuring.

On a laptop: press A–D to answer, Enter for the next question.