You ever notice how rectangular Egypt is ? Me neither — until I discovered some very unscientific research from Australian statistician David Barry . In a recentblog post , Barry compared the rectangularness of all countries in the world and set up that it does n’t get any better than Egypt .
Just count at it .
It ’s a orthogonal chef-d’oeuvre .
Barry ’s search for the most rectangular state started after a Facebook protagonist noted how “ unusually orthogonal ” the country Turkey is . That made Barry remember : What if he compared every res publica in the world to feel out the most rectangular rural area of them all ? He decide to go for it , and he built a comparing cock using maximal part overlap with a rectangle of the same area as a country . The result were shameful .
First of all , who would have guessed Egypt is the most orthogonal with a 95 pct match ? That ’s crazy .
How how about the Vatican mislay by a such a tight border at 94.8 pct ? Even half-baked .
All you rectangle fans should take this with a squeamish big pinch of rectangular salt : Barry warns in his web log post that “ there are probably small error scattered throughout ” his analysis and state that “ consist of many small islands could be horribly haywire . ” I think that means the Philippines has a fairly solid excuse for not being rectangular . But all the other landlocked countries out there do n’t have any excuse . Better shape up ( except for the Maldives , it depend like a lost cause ) .
[ Pappubahry ]
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