ELI5 Longitude and Latitude

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I don’t understand these two

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Think of the claw game at the arcade. You can only move left-right, or front to back. You can’t move diagonal. To win a piece, you have to move exactly so many inches on the left-right line, then the front-back line. The left right and front back lines are latitude and longitude, and the EXACT spot to drop the claw, down to a very specific number, is how coordinates for a given location works.

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