| 1. | On the central meridian and the standard latitude shapes are not distorted.
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| 2. | The scale is also true on the central meridian of the projection.
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| 3. | The central meridian is the meridian going through the sub-Earth point.
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| 4. | The central meridian of the first zone was the Washington meridian.
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| 5. | Easting values are established as the distance from the central meridian of a zone.
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| 6. | The central meridian is arbitrarily set at 500, 000 metres, to avoid negative numbers.
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| 7. | They are accurate to around a millimeter within 3, 000 km of the central meridian.
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| 8. | It was located in the South Equatorial Belt, about fifty degrees from the central meridian.
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| 9. | Scale is constant along the central meridian, and east west scale is constant throughout the map.
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| 10. | The " central meridian " is the meridian to which the globe is rotated before projecting.
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