the center of the world (was Re: Check out O'Reilly's Open Source Convention Highlights)

[D-Man]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 03:24:58PM +0200, Alex Martelli wrote:
| "Konrad Hinsen" <hinsen at cnrs-orleans.fr> wrote in message
| news:m366df8mcy.fsf at chinon.cnrs-orleans.fr...
| > "Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> writes:
| >
| > > to 'population centers'.  Of course I could get different
| > > centers by choosing different weighing factors (country GNP
| > > rather than country population, for example).
| >
| > Or by Python expertise ;-)
| 
| Know any freely available databases indicating latitude
| and longitude of Python experts...?

I think you already have all the data points you need from that
database <wink>.

| > What's so bad about it? Searching for a global minimum in two
| > variables is not so difficult. All the more within finite coordinate
| > intervals. Of course there might be no global minimum at all.
| 
| Think positive -- there may be SEVERAL locations that are
| global minima...

Must think positive, must think positive, ...  maybe the next one will
be at my house <grin>!

-D