Are you one of those people who watchs your car's odometer roll over from 9,999 to 10,000, etc.? If so, you'll enjoy this letter to the London Times (June 17, 1978):
Sir,
It is not only dates that make nice patterns of numbers. Some years ago I was bringing a Destroyer home from the Far East and was required to report my position twice a day.
One evening, I saw that we would be passing close to where the Greenwich Meridian cuts the Equator so arranged to arrive there dead on midnight. Once there I altered course to due North and stopped engines so my position signal read:
At 0000 my position Latitude 00°00′N, Longitude 00°00′E. Course 000°. Speed 0.
I had considered saying I was Nowhere but thought (probably correctly) that Their Lordships would not be amused.
Yours faithfully,
Claud Dicken
The green arrow on the map at right shows the point Mr. Dicken took his destroyer to...
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