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Mercator's projection is the cylindrical projection defined by $T(\phi, \theta)=(\phi,ln( \vert sec(\phi)+tan(\phi)\vert)).$ Compute the general distortion factors $M_\phi$ and $M_\theta$ for $T$ as functions of $\phi$ and $\theta$. Use this to prove that Mercator's is conformal.