@tetris11@lemmy.ml to Today I learned@lemmy.ml • edit-28 days agoTIL that Chile, Argentina, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Taiwan, Greenland, and the Phillipines are the only countries that you can tunnel through to hit another land mass. All others lead to water.lemmy.mlimagemessage-square52fedilinkarrow-up131arrow-down124
arrow-up17arrow-down1imageTIL that Chile, Argentina, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Taiwan, Greenland, and the Phillipines are the only countries that you can tunnel through to hit another land mass. All others lead to water.lemmy.ml@tetris11@lemmy.ml to Today I learned@lemmy.ml • edit-28 days agomessage-square52fedilink
minus-square@tetris11@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilink-1•8 days agoThe definition I’m using is something like: “more than 80% of a country’s landmass is covered by a landmass on the other side” So china has parts where you hit land, but most of it hits ocean, and so it’s not on the list.
minus-squareCarrotsHaveEarslinkfedilink2•6 days ago80%? Why this ramdom number? Why not use 1 sigma, 2 sigma or any other terms with more statistical meaning? And in a previous comment you implied 100% by saying “random point”. Here, I made a screenshot of it. https://lemmy.ml/comment/19474993
minus-square@tetris11@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilink0•edit-26 days agoBecause Im using rough visual metrics on an image, and not precise numerical analysis on GDAL? Jesus H.
The definition I’m using is something like: “more than 80% of a country’s landmass is covered by a landmass on the other side”
So china has parts where you hit land, but most of it hits ocean, and so it’s not on the list.
80%? Why this ramdom number? Why not use 1 sigma, 2 sigma or any other terms with more statistical meaning?
And in a previous comment you implied 100% by saying “random point”. Here, I made a screenshot of it.
https://lemmy.ml/comment/19474993
Because Im using rough visual metrics on an image, and not precise numerical analysis on GDAL? Jesus H.