Saturday, December 5, 2020

What is missing here?

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yesterday Randall Munroe published an xkxd web cartoon (shown above) titled Contiguous 41 States. Most Americans immediately will say that’s wrong, there should be 48 of them. But the map superficially seems ok, and it’s surprisingly hard to tell what he left off. Actually he skipped the entire column with North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas. He also slid over the adjacent states to eliminate Delaware, New Mexico and Pennsylvania.

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can see what he did by comparing with the correct map shown above. Or you could cheat and look the cartoon up at Explain xkcd.

   


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