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Re: Worldle

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Post by cmeacham98 »

laurent92 wrote: post #119
function_seven wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So what is the percentage indicate separately from the distance? I think the "right" way to display the distance would be from the closest points in the guessed and target territories. So United States and Canada, sharing a border, would be "0 km", while Canada and Mexico would be whatever the shortest path from border to border would be (like 2,000km?) I have a feeling that's a bit more difficult than centers, thoug…

Interesting because, between easy-and-wrong and hard-but-perfect, there is the solution of subtracting the size of each country from their distance.

Assuming by "size" you mean something like average/longest distance from the center this is the worst possible answer because it's super non-intuitive and can create crazy results like negative answers.

Re: Worldle

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Post by tialaramex »

unkulunkulu wrote: post #118
blendergeek wrote: post #116

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> Though that max distance is defined to be 20,000,000. This is almost true (in real life). The meter was originally defined as 1/10,000,000 of the distance from the equator to the north pole. Given that the earth is a fairly "nice" sphere, the maximum distance between any two points on earth is very close to 20,000,000 meters.

TIL, so the equator length is 40k km by definition? So cool!

Almost but no. Today all the SI base units are defined in terms of a universal constant, so that if you understood how SI works you can do all the same metrication work from a distant galaxy, you don't need to be here on Earth. The metre is defined by the constant c, the "speed of light"

But because of this original definition the equator will work out to about 40000 km.

Re: Worldle

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Post by yread »

unkulunkulu wrote: post #118
blendergeek wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Though that max distance is defined to be 20,000,000. This is almost true (in real life). The meter was originally defined as 1/10,000,000 of the distance from the equator to the north pole. Given that the earth is a fairly "nice" sphere, the maximum distance between any two points on earth is very close to 20,000,000 meters.

TIL, so the equator length is 40k km by definition? So cool!

and one minute of longitude on the equator is 1/360/60 =1/21600th of it or around 1.855km or approximately 1nm. This decreases with cos of your latitude.

One minute of latitude is always 1nm

Re: Worldle

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Post by saimiam »

yread wrote: post #123
unkulunkulu wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

TIL, so the equator length is 40k km by definition? So cool!

and one minute of longitude on the equator is 1/360/60 =1/21600th of it or around 1.855km or approximately 1nm. This decreases with cos of your latitude. One minute of latitude is always 1nm

(for those mentally converting nm to nano meter and scratching your head) I think nm here means nautical mile which makes more sense in context than nanometer.

Re: Worldle

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Post by yardstick »

amanzi wrote: post #41

I don't understand how this works? It had a picture of _____, and the correct answer was ______. Is it just guessing the country name based on the shape? edit - hid my answer in case it wasn't as obvious to others.

Todays question was super easy for a lot of people. Past countries have been things like Turks & Cacos, Liberia, Guatemala. Those I got close to and then the last guess or two I was scanning around google maps.

Yeah it’s not as fun as Wordle, kinda interesting for a few plays though.

Re: Worldle

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Post by ricardo81 »

Galanwe wrote: post #47
kej wrote: post #7

Globle is another daily geography game: https://globle-game.com/

It seems very buggy. - lots of country guesses raise an error saying it doesn't exist. Such as "brasil". - if you zoom on the map, there are flashings of the underlying map layer with country names... - I got to find the exact match of "French Guiana (France)"...

>french guiana

Bit problematic, think an auto complete might make life easier for guessing

Re: Worldle

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Post by mypalmike »

function_seven wrote: post #63
Ansil849 wrote: post #33

I was extremely confused about the distance values in relation to the percentages until I read the help: > The distances displayed correspond to the distances between the selected and the target territory centers. > For instance, the computed distance between United States and Canada is around 2260km even if they have a common border. That's extremely deceptive and non-obvious unless you read through the documentatio…

So what is the percentage indicate separately from the distance? I think the "right" way to display the distance would be from the closest points in the guessed and target territories. So United States and Canada, sharing a border, would be "0 km", while Canada and Mexico would be whatever the shortest path from border to border would be (like 2,000km?) I have a feeling that's a bit more difficult than centers, thoug…

> I have a feeling that's a bit more difficult than centers, though.

This is quite an understatement.

Re: Worldle

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Post by midasuni »

mcorning wrote: post #114
function_seven wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So what is the percentage indicate separately from the distance? I think the "right" way to display the distance would be from the closest points in the guessed and target territories. So United States and Canada, sharing a border, would be "0 km", while Canada and Mexico would be whatever the shortest path from border to border would be (like 2,000km?) I have a feeling that's a bit more difficult than centers, thoug…

It's really a shame the developer didn't add this feature. One might be scared off by the large number of geometry files involved with this, but actually this is a great example of when hard coding can supersede dynamic/robust code. It would be better to simply store an object of all countries borders and the their relative direction to one another. I could see this being a slight issue with countries that share a bo…

France would be fascinating
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