IN THE STORY
Dustin recognises that Tony has stored coordinates as whole numbers. The note supplies the scale: one billion units per degree.
The idea
Numbers without quotation marks can be used in arithmetic. / means division. The underscores in 1_000_000_000 make the number easier to read; Python treats it as 1000000000. A negative longitude points west of the zero meridian. A positive one points east. Here we only calculate fictional story data; no map or location service is used.
Your mission
Divide the longitude by the same scale used for the latitude. Preserve the negative sign in its stored value.
Replace ____ with the missing expression, then choose Run code. Match the expected output before trying your own changes.
Before you run it
What happens to the longitude if you remove its minus sign?
A little help?
Hint 1: a nudge
Use the variable longitude, not a newly typed positive number.
Hint 2: a closer look
The expression is longitude / scale.
How the answer works
The two results are 40.701567 and -73.775392. The minus sign survives the calculation because it is part of the value.
This replaces the code in the editor. Save your version first if you want to keep it.
Make it yours
Change the scale to 1000. Explain why the resulting values cannot be latitude and longitude.