Tunnelling the Earth
Time limit1sMemory limit128 MB
For each pair of points given by latitude and longitude, print the difference between the great-circle surface distance and the straight-line tunnel distance, rounded to the nearest metre.
- Level
Medium4 of 10
- Topics
- Geometry, Math, Implementation
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Problem
There are many ways to move people from place to place: cars, bikes, boats, trains, planes, and so on. For very long distances people usually fly, but a plane has to follow the curved surface of the Earth. The trip would be shorter if the traveller went in a straight line from one point to the other through a tunnel bored through the Earth.
For example, travelling from Waterloo to Cairo covers metres along the great-circle route over the surface, but only metres along the straight line through the Earth.
Assume the Earth is a perfect sphere with radius metres.
Input
The first line contains a single integer, the number of test cases. Each test case is one line with four floating-point numbers: the latitude and longitude of the origin, followed by the latitude and longitude of the destination, all in degrees. Positive values mean North latitude and East longitude; negative values mean South latitude and West longitude.
Output
For each test case, output one line with a single integer: the difference between the great-circle distance over the surface and the straight-line distance through the Earth, in metres, rounded to the nearest integer.