Timeline for All countries segmented
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| Jun 19 at 21:36 | comment | added | Ben | Well, it's not a joke answer. It's more lateral thinking. Though, I accept lateral thinking won't get me a green check on this problem as @JKHA has defined it. And Antarctica isn't a country. If it were, it wouldn't matter, because it is the same line segment the entire time. | |
| Jun 19 at 19:24 | comment | added | Weather Vane | A joke answer to a poorly defined question isn't an answer, at best a comment to illustrate it. Quite plainly, your thick line touches Antarctica twice. | |
| Jun 19 at 19:21 | comment | added | Ben | @WeatherVane The previous comments discussed this. In math, they obviously have no width. In life, they can have width. Never hurts to be creative on a puzzling site. But yes, it's not an explicit restriction I've broken, it's just misuse of a word given. | |
| Jun 19 at 19:15 | comment | added | Weather Vane | Oh, I see: your line segment has thickness. That's a rectangle, not a line. And your "thick" line may enter a country in more than one place, for example France. | |
| Jun 19 at 19:13 | comment | added | Ben | @WeatherVane There is no violation of that restriction. In the same way that a single line segment can cross South Africa, then Lesotho, then South Africa again– one segment leaves and reenters South Africa. My line segment might touch the USA in California or on Baker Island. I can touch both Greenland and Denmark with the segment. In my silly little answer, every single place has the same segment on it. My point is your point: using my one segment, exactly one segment, it will always be the same exact segment on every country. | |
| Jun 19 at 18:51 | comment | added | Weather Vane | There is a restriction. "Countries have exactly one segment on it." DV for ignoring that restriction. | |
| Jun 19 at 5:35 | comment | added | JKHA | Nice try and agree with Daniel Mathias' comment :) | |
| Jun 18 at 18:40 | comment | added | Ben | Worth a shot given how much is left unrestricted, but I agree | |
| Jun 18 at 18:38 | comment | added | Daniel Mathias | A line segment has no width. | |
| Jun 18 at 18:35 | history | answered | Ben | CC BY-SA 4.0 |