I messed around on Google maps and while the difference is surprisingly not that much (only a difference of about 100 miles or so), I kept getting Cape Verde as closer to Maine, which was (also surprisingly) the nearest point. Curvature really screws up my mental image of the map.
@servo5 - A Wooly Mammoth is a species of the taxonomic genus of mammoth. Like a Blue Whale is a species of taxonomic clade of whales. A Wooly Mammoth is a specific type of animal, not just an adjective describing how mammoths look. There were plenty of other types of mammoths as well. Anyway, seeing as how the wooly mammoth was prized by early humans for their enormous tusks, I think it is not just a valid answer, but perhaps the most obvious. This could have been avoided by wording the question to suggest an extant animal.
Please could you accept "chilli" in addition to "pepper"? In British English "peppers" are bell/sweet peppers, and hot peppers are just referred to as "chillies".
I absolutely do not understand how sums are so different nowadays.
111 + 10 = 121
121 x 5 = 605
There are no parentheses to indicate another route.
If you want the answer you give you have to use parentheses
111 + (10 * 5) = 111 + 50 = 161
Who ever came up with bodmas, or whatever, is just a plain lazy sod who can't be arsed to write full 'sentence' sums and irritating bugger for inflicting it on the world because they must be punishing teachers to have to teach it. I understood sums then and absolutely don't understand the sequences people now try to use to explain them now.
The order of operations has been the correct way to solve mathematical equations since the 1600s. Parentheses are only needed if you want your equation to NOT follow Multiply/Divide first then Add/Subtract.
For the question about Occams razor, I think "the one with least assumptions" or just "least assumptions" should be accepted. I understand why you accept "simplest" (and you should probably keep doing that), but that is not how Occam phrased it.
True, but Great Britain doesn‘t start with a B. There is no "Britain",but there is a "Great Britain" with England, Scotland and Wales and a "Little Britain", nowadays known as Brittany or Bretagne
Why do people have a problem with this? Mammoth starts with 'm'. Boar starts with 'b'. The "wooly" and "wild" are adjectives. Those aren't "w" animals people
As I mentioned above, "Wooly Mammoth" is a species of animal. There is no species called White Elephant; however, does Asian Elephant start with A or with E? It's a great example, since a Wooly Mammoth is a species of Mammoth just as an Asian Elephant is a species of Elephant.
if you are just after a curved arch shape, then the tallest arch answer is correct (630ft). But the Gate of the Orient "pants building" in Suzhou is way higher and is mostly arch. Total height is 990ft, not sure about the gap underneath.
Just a small tweak: while NSW is always written as all capitals being an initialism, Vic and Qld are written thus as abbreviations. They aren't all caps.
I don't believe that's true. I live in Victoria and I've always seen the abbreviation capitalised, such as in my address. I'm not sure about Queensland but I think it's the same.
There isn't anything wrong with the question because you can easily tell what it's referring to, but because I have a personal beef with Gateway Arch "National Park", I'm going to pick this nit:
It's only the largest man-made arch in the world. There is at least one natural arch that well surpasses it, and possibly more depending on how you're measuring.
111 + 10 = 121
121 x 5 = 605
There are no parentheses to indicate another route.
If you want the answer you give you have to use parentheses
111 + (10 * 5) = 111 + 50 = 161
Who ever came up with bodmas, or whatever, is just a plain lazy sod who can't be arsed to write full 'sentence' sums and irritating bugger for inflicting it on the world because they must be punishing teachers to have to teach it. I understood sums then and absolutely don't understand the sequences people now try to use to explain them now.
Order of operations are hardly a new concept. They're especially important in programming languages. Learn it. Move on.
Maybe the question should be: "What is the english word for djinn?"
(the last one may possibly be a legit candidate, since "water" is not a characteristic like "woolly" or "wild"...)
borneo has some of malaysia, some of indonesia and all of brunei
new guinea has most of papua new guinea and some of indonesia
It's only the largest man-made arch in the world. There is at least one natural arch that well surpasses it, and possibly more depending on how you're measuring.