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The real problem is there's only 195 countries.
In that case, it will be a good game for at least 195 days
Compare this to drawing from 195 countries to guess 195 countries.
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.
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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
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.
When people talk about how far one country is from another, chances are extremely unlikely they are referring to how far their central points are from one another.
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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.
> How is it deceptive? When people talk about how far one country is from another, chances are extremely unlikely they are referring to how far their central points are from one another.
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Seriously. How do you get a fresh one?
You wait a day. (Although there are various workarounds.)
Such as?
Edit: looking at the source code, it seems to take your local system time so that would be one. Wonder if I can just go through each country in random order without repeating.
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Not quite, you'd get the maximum distance from the extreme end of one territory to the nearest point of the other.
> Not quite, you'd get the maximum distance from the extreme end of one territory to the nearest point of the other. But which country do you pick the extreme edge of, and which country do you pick the nearest point of? For example, if measuring US Canada, do you pick the extreme end of Canada or the extreme end of the US?
For every point in both territories, find the closest point in the other territory. From these pairs of points, find the pair with the largest distance. That distance is your Hausdorff distance.