The calculation relies on triangulation, an ancient geolocation technique based on geometry. For GPS, it works like this: When the signals from the four satellites arrive at the receiver, your GPS gadget compares the time they were received to the time they were transmitted. Those four times are all slightly different, because the satellites are at four different distances away from you. Your GPS device multiplies those four tiny time differences by the speed of light to calculate how far away you are from the four satellites overhead. Because the positions of the satellites are known and
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