The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to Cartography AnarchyEnglish · 6 hours agoThis really puts the size into perspectivelemmy.worldimagemessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up1259arrow-down14
arrow-up1255arrow-down1imageThis really puts the size into perspectivelemmy.worldThe Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to Cartography AnarchyEnglish · 6 hours agomessage-square10fedilink
minus-squareHonoraryMancunian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35·5 hours agoFor my fellow nerds who are wondering for realsies, you can 512 Polands in the Pacific ocean (although you’d probably have to chop up a few to get them to fit neatly)
minus-squarestate_electrician@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 hour agoConsidering that all the landmasses on earth could fit into the Pacific, that number sounds surprisingly low. But the math does check out.
minus-squaretacosanonymouslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 hours agoDepends on how you measure the coastlines.
minus-squareWrufieotnak@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up33·5 hours ago although you’d probably have to chop up a few to get them excited German and Soviet noises
minus-squareTAYRN@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·5 hours agoCool. Now all of us fellow nerds are obsessing over the fact that it’s a perfect power of two.
minus-squareCodex@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·4 hours agoTurns out, the polandgon (polagon?) has an ideal shape with a perfect binary ratio of area to circumference.
For my fellow nerds who are wondering for realsies, you can 512 Polands in the Pacific ocean (although you’d probably have to chop up a few to get them to fit neatly)
Considering that all the landmasses on earth could fit into the Pacific, that number sounds surprisingly low. But the math does check out.
Depends on how you measure the coastlines.
excited German and Soviet noises
Cool. Now all of us fellow nerds are obsessing over the fact that it’s a perfect power of two.
Turns out, the polandgon (polagon?) has an ideal shape with a perfect binary ratio of area to circumference.