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Trig.pm: Don't negatively judge Siberia in pod
authorKarl Williamson <khw@cpan.org>
Fri, 3 Mar 2023 01:48:43 +0000 (18:48 -0700)
committerKarl Williamson <khw@cpan.org>
Sat, 4 Mar 2023 20:06:10 +0000 (13:06 -0700)
commit33af0103059705381523b5b9d834af9ef121a53b
treeb827004206c2d506a039db10c9f2228bf1a1f60a
parentbc3ddaeeda694c8ef3ba44378dc958cea17d5d53
Trig.pm: Don't negatively judge Siberia in pod

The pod referred to a point as being in "frozen wastes".  But that
judgement is a distraction from the point of the text, and not actually
true.

I looked at the spot in Google Maps.  This area in the summer is
verdant, with many rivers and lakes.   It is part of the
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putorana_Plateau.  The closest place I
could (without expending much effort) find a non-satellite photograph
of is 60km away:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Putorana2._Lama_lake..jpg

Doesn't seem like a wasteland to me.

And for history buffs, the plateau contains part of the Siberian Traps,
remnants of volanic eruptions generally implicated as a cause of the
largest known extinction event, terminating the Permian.
dist/Math-Complex/lib/Math/Trig.pm