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Simply because it doesn't matter in either case.

-- Zero east or zero west puts you on the Prime Meridian either way.

(Beginning on the Prime Meridian, you may travel 0° east or 0° west,

as you prefer, and you arrive at the same place either way.)

-- 180° is half-way around any sphere. Regardless of which direction you decide

to travel from the Prime Meridian, 180° east or 180° west puts you exactly half-

way around the Earth, in the same place.

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Because those are the ones that were left up to your pleaseure. Where the

longitude of a place is zero, you're free to call it zero east or zero west, as you

wish. And if the longitude of a place is 180, you may call it 180 east or 180 west,

as it pleases you. Similarly, if the latitude of a place is zero, you may call it zero

north or zero south. You'll be fastidiously and precisely correct eaither way, and

nobody will argue with you.

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Simply because it doesn't matter in either case.

-- Zero east or zero west puts you on the Prime Meridian either way.

(Beginning on the Prime Meridian, you may travel 0° east or 0° west,

as you prefer, and you arrive at the same place either way.)

-- 180° is half-way around any sphere. Regardless of which direction you decide

to travel from the Prime Meridian, 180° east or 180° west puts you exactly half-

way around the Earth, in the same place.

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