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Re: Worldle

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Post by mypalmike »

3np wrote: post #132
mypalmike wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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)_/¯

True. But to perform that precomputation, you have to find a database of country geometry outlines. And (manually?) filter out things like Hawaii and Guam from these. Then, assuming country geometry is given as lat lon polygons, it seems you then are computing either O(n^2 * m^2) distances where n is the number of countries and m is the average number of vertices per country. Or you might come up with some space partitioning algorithm on the vertices to reduce that to maybe O(n^2 * m log(m)). It's doable, but my comment was merely pointing out that it's much more complex than comparing country centers.

Re: Worldle

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Post by rplnt »

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…

How is it deceptive? To me it's an extra tidbit of information that doesn't seem important. It's clearly linked with distance, so I know it's something to do with distance.

Re: Worldle

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Post by Someone »

tialaramex wrote: post #122
unkulunkulu wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It also never was by definition. The meter was originally defined as (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_metre) “one ten-millionth of the shortest distance from the North Pole to the equator passing through Paris, assuming an Earth's flattening of 1/334”

You have to add the fact that earth is almost spherical to go, from there, to “the length of the equator is about 40 million meters”.

Reading that Wikipedia page, I think it already was known when the meter was defined that the polar diameter of the Earth is smaller than its equatorial diameter.

Re: Worldle

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Post by rplnt »

yardstick wrote: post #127
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.

I wonder if this was posted every day and only got upvoted when a country that is definitely in the top 5 easiest and virtually everyone will get it in one or two tries was on offer.

I wish the rotation would be on by default (the distances are enough of a hint), or at least work if I turn it on.

Re: Worldle

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Post by rplnt »

mepiethree wrote: post #37
divbzero wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would be cool if each dot represented a different variable: 1. Similarity in latitude 2. Similarity in longitude 3. Similarity in size 4. Similarity in population 5. Similarity in GDP

Oh man I want this so badly. Might build it.

If you do, do not include the image.

Re: Worldle

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Post by rplnt »

labster wrote: post #77
drivers99 wrote: post #58

Is it cheating to look at a map? I got a very nearby country so I looked to see what was around it which shows the shape quite clearly. I guess as an educational tool, it’s still very good that way. I now know how those countries are geographically related, in an area I don’t know very well.

Like the Wordle, the only person who determines if it’s cheating is you. How you enjoy it is all up to you. There are settings to rotate or hide the map here, so we’re not all playing the same game anyway.

> the only person who determines if it’s cheating is you

This is something that is unequivocally true, yet I get mildly irritated/frustrated (is there a word for combination of these two?) when people use google or something to "get words".

> There are settings to rotate or hide the map here, so we’re not all playing the same game anyway.

Wordle has hard mode too. But in this case you see the map before given this option. And at least the rotation doesn't work for me.

Re: Worldle

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Post by rplnt »

therealdrag0 wrote: post #110
lkxijlewlf wrote: post #88

#Worldle #26 4/6 ⬜ ⬜⬜ ⬜⬜ https://worldle.teuteuf.fr

#Worldle #26 5/6 ⬜⬜ https://worldle.teuteuf.fr Got 2 bordering countries then looked at map.

Now these two comments explain some other. I got #27 which was probably the worst choice for this game. I can only think of two easier country outlines to pick.

Re: Worldle

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Post by mlatu »

instead of the boxes they should use a progress bar to visualize distance between guess and solution... otherwise fun i guess
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