How many degrees seprate the north pole from the south pole?

Question

How many degrees seprate the north pole from the south pole?

Answer 1

Degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit?
Just kidding.
The north pole is 90 ° (degr). North, the south pole is 90° South. So 90+90=180°.
You can also say:
Completely round the earth is 360°.
From the north pole to the south pole is half way round, so 360/2=180°.

Answer 2

If Earth were a perfect sphere the answer would be 180 degrees.

The Earth is not a perfect sphere, but we still say the two poles are separated by 180 degrees. Geometrically they are not, if you make the rule that the distance subtended by one degree on the equator is the same everywhere. In fact, if you paced off one degree at the equator and measured the number of kilometers you paced the same number of kilometers at the north pole would be more than one degree.

So, if the degree is defined at the equator there are fewer than 180 degrees separating the north from the south pole; if the degree is defined at the poles there are more (using, again, the distance on the surface at one point or another to define a degree).

But, do this. Draw a circle, and mark of a number of radii. Inside the circle draw an ellipse with the wide part (left to right) equal to the diameter of the circle. Even though the two have different shapes the same number of radii you drew for the circle fit inside the ellipse; if you drew 360 of them they would represent degrees of longitude, and if you could count them from pole to pole there would be 180 of them.

So, if you define a degree as 1/360 of the distance around a globe (which is, I believe, the accepted definition) then no matter the shape of the globe there would be 360 of them (if there are no "re-entrants", where a degree line might hit the globe twice).

Answer 3

The north pole is 90°N, the south pole is 90°S so there are 180° between them. The surface can be any shape but it does not affect the number of degrees which are defined by angles from a central point.

Answer 4

180 degrees of latitude.

Answer 5

At last count, it took all of them.

Answer 6

mussee bout 900000