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TIL, so the equator length is 40k km by definition? So cool!
40k km = 40Mm
Sadly nobody ever used that. We could also use Pm for interstellar distances.
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#142When do you get a yellow square? I couldn't find this documented anywhere, so I took a look at the code. Here's what I found: For each guess, Worldle calculates a proximity score from 0 to 100 -- higher is better. Each row is basically a quantized proximity score meter, from 0 to 100 in increments of 20. If you get at least half-way to the next increment of 20 (i.e. to the next green square), you get a yellow square,…
20 million meters is indeed about the maximum distance between any two points on Earth.
Along the surface. Otherwise it's about 12 million meters.
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#143I 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…
Worldle also doesn't require rule reading. I've been playing it for a week and never read any documentation. It's quite intuitive if you're not interested in nitpicking exactly what the distance measurement means.
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What is the center of the US anyways? Does it include Alaska and Guam?
Fun fact, Google Earth had its coordinates defaulted to an apartment complex in Lawrence, Kansas, apparently the childhood home of one of the engineers, but also roughly the center of the United States. https://www2.ljworld.com/news/2005/dec/21/lawrence_pinpointe...
I thought it was a farm in Kansas. They frequently get visitors looking for people who's geo ip data said they lived there.
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#146I 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…
To be fair, Wordle also doesn't require much external knowledge beyond a basic vocabulary. This is aimed at a more narrow crowd and is just a fun experiment.
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#147I 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.
Guatemala was surprisingly hard for me. I discovered I really have no idea what the countries in Central America actually look like. I got it by naming literally every single Central American country think of, and then thinking really hard which one I missed. Guatemala has an interesting border I won't easily forget anymore.
On the other hand, I got Nepal in one, which I'm unreasonably proud of.
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#148Would be nice to have some more geographic hints like rivers or major cities, i.e. night lights. Also as someone whose long term memory of geography is sustained by occasionally humming Yakko's world song, it's depressing to learn how inaccurate / out of date it is.
See: Errors, Inaccuracies, and Other Geographical Trivia https://animaniacs.fandom.com/wiki/Yakko%27s_World_(song)
Recommend Map men's "The mystery of the squarest country" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mrNEVUuZdk
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#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
What about France? Is it half way into Spain because its weighted towards French Guyana?
What about Reunion? Then it should be roughly in the middle of Africe.
If you weight it by the actual size of territories rather than just the extreme boundaries then the center is indeed in Spain, because the overseas regions are still rather small in comparison to the European part of France.
If you use only the extreme boundaries then it gets a lot more interesting and I would say that the center is closer to the center of the Earth than to its surface.
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#150I 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.
oh, shoot. i assumed i was trying to guess an island nation since it wasn't rendered with any surroundings. but it renders all states this way — just the border, as if it had no neighbors?