Google maps challenge

DaveC426913 said:
If you stop and think about it, this is not true.

There is no reason why pointing NW couldn't carry you 10,000 miles around the globe. It could simply be a great circle that connects the start point to the end point with the shortest possible route.
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Potentially outside this topic's context. But here "and beyond" doesn't entail absolute continuance. Due to it becoming obvious that there are no immediate 5-border country candidates to be had in polar hell and mildly past its graces, and that the direction down from the Arctic transforms to no longer being NW. And the further the distance from Georgia goes, the more absurd a "No, that's not the intended one, either" response becomes, too. ;)
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C C said:
Potentially outside this topic's context. But here "and beyond" doesn't entail absolute continuance.
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The point is, it doesn't rule it out. That's you imposing a subjective restriction.

If we hadn't found a qualifying country in the near distance, we would continue along a straight line (Great Circle) until we did.

Your way is restrictive; it may give up while there are still potentially valid solutions to be had.

C C said:
...the direction down from the Arctic transforms to no longer being NW.
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Nowhere in the instructions does it say "Step 2: stop and make sure you're still heading North-West".

What if the challenge was, say: "A city starting with 'Tor' ->** N.West" ?
(**notice the OP's format leaves room for interpretation.)

Toronto would be a perfectly cromulant solution to the challenge.

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A map from the Great Circle Mapper

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DaveC426913 said:
The point is, it doesn't rule it out. That's you imposing a subjective restriction.

If we hadn't found a qualifying country in the near distance, we would continue along a straight line (Great Circle) until we did.

Your way is restrictive; it may give up while there are still potentially valid solutions to be had.
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Yes, but "since there's no point entering the polar region and beyond" is not a method or approach. Much less one with universal application over varying "guessing game" scenarios. It's just expressing knowledge that there are no countries with five borders to be had by entering the Arctic and continuing to North America.

Grounded in a good-faith assumption (not without risk) that the Original Poster was not a joker, and thereby practical minimalism probably applied rather than the excess of pursuing a circle around the globe.
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new challenge !

guess country: z


[48.7, 32.62 -> S.West (Borders: 3 countries)


you can also ask questions to get more clues.
 
C C said:
Yes, but "since there's no point entering the polar region and beyond" is not a method or approach. Much less one with universal application over varying "guessing game" scenarios. It's just expressing knowledge that there are no countries with five borders to be had by entering the Arctic and continuing to North America.
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How did you know? Or did you check?

C C said:
Grounded in a good-faith assumption (not without risk) that the Original Poster was not a joker, and thereby practical minimalism probably applied rather than the excess of pursuing a circle around the globe.
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On the contrary, I would have thought that would be the "challenge" part.
 
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