Web app calculates latitude using a stick, shadow, and solar position.

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A web application called Noon Stick calculates a user's latitude using a simple physical experiment. Users place a straight stick in flat ground around solar noon and measure its shadow length. The app uses the shortest shadow measurement and the date to compute the latitude, typically within one degree of accuracy. It was created for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge and runs entirely in a browser.

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