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Re: Worldle

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Post by bspammer »

Ansil849 wrote: post #85
bspammer wrote: post #76

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For the arrow hint to work at all, countries need to be a single point. I intuitively assumed the hull centre without really thinking about it.

> For the arrow hint to work at all, countries need to be a single point. First of all; no, not at all. The arrow hint can work if countries are considered a mass, not a point, it simply means that there can be times when there are any number of correct arrow designations. Second of all, even if countries are considered as single points for the arrow hint, that is not the issue being presently discussed: that of the…

I don’t know what you mean by “considered a mass” unless you mean “centre of mass”, which is a point. If there are times where there are a lot of correct arrow designations, how is that not more confusing?

In my opinion, using a different measure for the distance and direction would have been even more confusing. It’s also a lot harder to program for a silly web game.

Re: Worldle

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Post by 3np »

mypalmike wrote: post #129
function_seven wrote: post #63

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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.

Given it's a static dataset of countries, the distance of all country pairs could all be precomputed and loaded in memory, I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Re: Worldle

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Post by TobTobXX »

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!

40k km = 40Mm
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