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Draw All US, Canada and Mexico Subdivision Borders
Welcome sadists, to an expansion of an earlier torture device. Guess each border between two subdivisions, or between a subdivision and a body of water.
I do mean ALL borders
The bodies of water used is somewhat arbitrary, if at first you don't succeed, deny you ever tried
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Huge thank you for making this! One of my favourite quizzes so far. I appreciate your work.
Also, no, sadly, no four-corners in Mexico; there's 1870 meters of Zacatecas separating Jalisco and San Luis Potosí.
Next comment will have the abbreviations for you in case you are curious.
1. Manitoba/Nunavut/Saskatchewan/NWT form a four-corners scenario like the one between Colorado/Utah/NM/Arizona.
2. Include James Bay (the one sticking out the bottom of Hudson Bay).
Also I'm not entirely sold on including Lake St Clair and not Lake of the Woods or Lake Champlain. The Great Lakes seem fair game, but I question whether St Clair is really the next most important lake.
Also also for some reason my brain refused to actually type all the four-corners borders, it just went "yes that's a 4-corners", moved on to the next thing, and never came back. grr.
Also 90% of Mexico
This discrepancy is actually my main driving factor for never trusting the borders found on google maps.
Is it possible to have more time? Even if I knew all the answers straight off I would never be able to type fast enough to complete the quiz. I have to play it untimed
Also, since bajasur works for Baja California Sur, you can go with sanluis for San Luis Potosí. When talking informally, no one says the "Potosí" part; when writing it, "SLP" does the trick.
Just wondering why Lake of the Woods not included as you have St Clair?
But now it is necessary to remove the non-existing border between Jalisco and San Luis Potosi!
Is it possible to change the border "Quebec - Newfoundland" to "Newfoundland - Quebec" to be consistent with the alphabetic list? Thanks!
Sorting algorithms are implemented in different ways. 2 main ways are a lexicographical sort and a natural sort. A lexicographical goes character-by-character in the text, treating them all as first-class citizens and ranking in order (in this case, the ASCII character set). So let's compare the strings
"Baja California Sur-Pacific Ocean" and
"Baja California-Pacific Ocean"
Everything matches through the end of California, then the next character is evaluated. In ASCII, the space is encoded as character 32, where the dash/minus is character 45. Since 32 is smaller, the space is sorted above the dash.
In contrast a natural or word-by-word sort will strip out spaces and sometimes punctuation before sorting, essentially turning the above comparison into
"BajaCaliforniaSurPacificOcean" and
"BajaCaliforniaPacificOcean"
In which case Sur would come later
BajaCaliforniaBajaCaliforniaSur
BajaCaliforniaPacific
BajaCaliforniaSurPacific
BajaCaliforniaSurWesternBaja
BajaCaliforniaWesternBaja
In that scenario the last item appears out of place, it should be 3rd with the other Bajas, above the Baja Surs. It is a tough challenge for natural sorts to decide how to handle hyphens and other punctuation, as an assumption must be made about how they're being used. So while it may seem odd for Baja Sur to sort above Baja, including the spaces does ensure proper grouping on this quiz.
Additionally, why is Lake St. Clair used but not Lake of the Woods or even Lake Chamberlain?
kept wondering what state/territory starting with 'N' I was missing haha