Imagine you are sailing on the ocean but your boat is incapable of turning. What would be the longest straight path you could take without hitting land? This question was the focus of a post that ...
Back in 2012, a Reddit user posted a map claiming to show the longest straight line that could be traversed across the ocean without hitting land. Intrigued, a pair of computer scientists have ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...
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