With all due respect sir I believe you've found a workable solution to the syndrome despite misdiagnosis of the problem.
Someone should create a koan collection in github to help properly answer "Do these jeans make my butt look fat?" and related topics.
(edited to emphasize WRT the above koan, no amount of deep real, or fake trivial, knowledge of spherical geometry will provide the correct answer. "I can provide a trivial proof that the interior angles of a triangle on the provided surface add up to far more than 180 degrees, and I like it that way" is never the correct answer. Nor is an engineering estimate "to one sig fig its circumference remains about two meters" won't work either, on several levels)
Someone should create a koan collection in github to help properly answer "Do these jeans make my butt look fat?" and related topics.
(edited to emphasize WRT the above koan, no amount of deep real, or fake trivial, knowledge of spherical geometry will provide the correct answer. "I can provide a trivial proof that the interior angles of a triangle on the provided surface add up to far more than 180 degrees, and I like it that way" is never the correct answer. Nor is an engineering estimate "to one sig fig its circumference remains about two meters" won't work either, on several levels)