A mad robot sets off towards the North East on a journey from the point (0,0) in a coordinate system. It travels in stages by moving forward and then rotating on the spot. It follows these pseudo-code instructions:

SUB JOURNEY

DISTANCE = 1000

WHILE (DISTANCE > 0.001) MOVE DISTANCE STOP ROTATE(90, DEGREES, CLOCKWISE) DISTANCE = DISTANCE / 2 END WHILE

EXPLODE

END SUB

Where does the robot explode?

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