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ISaveXKCDpapers: pi distance interpretation

2026-02-24T01:42:12Z

pi distance interpretation

Lettherebedarklight: /* Transcript */ add Category:Comics with a Spanish translation

2025-12-15T08:59:12Z

‎Transcript: add Category:Comics with a Spanish translation

141.101.98.8: Based on not knowing the person myself (by either name), nor being able to discover anything about them (ditti) and the original contributor being unable to provide info (in Pinyin or otherwise), no way to provide any Actual Citation. Not fact/trivia!

2024-10-21T11:05:02Z

Based on not knowing the person myself (by either name), nor being able to discover anything about them (ditti) and the original contributor being unable to provide info (in Pinyin or otherwise), no way to provide *any* Actual Citation. Not fact/trivia!

ConscriptGlossary: Add info

2024-10-21T06:42:31Z

Add info

ConscriptGlossary: /* Trivia */ new section

2024-10-10T13:05:09Z

‎Trivia: new section

I HAVE NO NAME at 14:09, 20 August 2024

2024-08-20T14:09:32Z

I HAVE NO NAME at 14:08, 20 August 2024

2024-08-20T14:08:42Z

42.book.addict at 19:18, 27 February 2024

2024-02-27T19:18:47Z

Pie Guy: /* Directions */ Spelling correction + filled out explanation for 81

2023-11-21T21:08:07Z

‎Directions: Spelling correction + filled out explanation for 81

172.71.154.86: Moved the link

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 *Step 75 tells you to travel 1172 feet up, a direction that Google Maps doesn't normally take into account.
 *No distance is traveled in step 77, so Google instead tells you to be careful when talking to Charlie.
-*{{w|Pi}} (π) is a ratio usually used in calculations involving circles, rather than in measuring distances.
+*{{w|Pi}} (π) is a ratio usually used in calculations involving circles. Due to this, it makes sense for π to arise in the context of circle-related distances. For instance, Old Mine Road could be a semicircle with a radius of 1 mile.
 *Google doesn't know how far it is from the Spectral Wolf to your destination, so it gives you question marks as the distance.

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 ::[An icon of a menacing face] 81. The '''Spectral Wolf''' fears only '''fire'''. The '''Google Maps Team''' can no longer help you, but if you master the '''wolf''', he will guide you. '''Godspeed.''' - go ?? mi
-== Trivia ==
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 == Trivia ==
-* The well known contemporary Chinese musician Li Jiayi composed a song called <!-- Sorry I can't type the unknown characters -->, which is most probably inspired by this comic. The background animation was mostly in XKCD-style handwriting. Google Maps was also mentioned in an obscure manner.
+* The well known contemporary Chinese musician Li Jiayi (a. k. a. Akegami Ritaka){{actual citation needed}} composed a song called <!-- Sorry I can't type the unknown characters -->, which is most probably inspired by this comic. The background animation was mostly in XKCD-style handwriting. Google Maps was also mentioned in an obscure manner.
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 ::↓ 80. Stand very still. Exits are '''north''', '''south''', and '''east''', but are blocked by a '''Spectral Wolf'''. - go 0 ft
 ::[An icon of a menacing face] 81. The '''Spectral Wolf''' fears only '''fire'''. The '''Google Maps Team''' can no longer help you, but if you master the '''wolf''', he will guide you. '''Godspeed.''' - go ?? mi
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 | Turn left on '''Comstock'''. When you feel the '''blood chill''' in your '''veins''', stop the van and '''get out'''. - go 3.2 mi
-| Google Maps usually does not ask you to wait until your blood chills. {{citation needed}}
+| Google Maps usually does not ask you to wait until your blood chills.{{Citation needed}}
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 | Turn '''right''' to stay on '''RT-22''' - go 2.6 mi
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 | Take '''Charlie's van''' down '''Old Mine Road'''. Do not wake the '''Straw Man'''. - go π mi
-| It is impossibe to go exactly π miles. But then it is also impossible to go exactly 52 feet or 3.2 miles.
+| It is impossible to go exactly π miles. But then it is also impossible to go exactly 52 feet or 3.2 miles.
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 | The '''Spectral Wolf''' fears only '''fire'''. The '''Google Maps Team''' can no longer help you, but if you master the '''wolf''', he will guide you. '''Godspeed'''. - go ?? mi
+| Judging by the well-wishes ("Godspeed"), this is the final direction, and the mysterious "Spectral Wolf" will guide Cueball and Cueball to their destination should they succeed in taming it. Google Maps does not usually instruct its users to seek mysterious cryptid entities in search of guidance.
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 ==Explanation==
-{{w|Google Maps}} is a web mapping service application. Before smartphones with GPS mapping software were widespread and most people's printers hadn't yet run out of ink, it was common to print out directions to take with you on a trip. The web version of Google Maps has many features including a route planner. As sophisticated as early versions were, it occasionally gave suboptimal directions. For example, the directions may tell you to take an exit that, in reality, is unmarked. Directions also did not take time of day into account, which would help in planning routes to avoid traffic or to make use of services such as a ferry.
+{{w|Google Maps}} (Check it out [https://www.maps.google.com here]) is a web mapping service application. Before smartphones with GPS mapping software were widespread and most people's printers hadn't yet run out of ink, it was common to print out directions to take with you on a trip. The web version of Google Maps has many features including a route planner. As sophisticated as early versions were, it occasionally gave suboptimal directions. For example, the directions may tell you to take an exit that, in reality, is unmarked. Directions also did not take time of day into account, which would help in planning routes to avoid traffic or to make use of services such as a ferry.
 Though no specific game or movie is referenced, steps 75 to 81 of the directions read like the plot of a horror film, a guide of a video game, or a role playing game. A straw man is another term for scarecrow, a common antagonist in both. Step 80 reads exactly like an old {{w|Interactive fiction|text adventure}} game's description of an area.
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 The title text tells us that Cueball and his brother attempted to drive around the lake, since they could not take the ferry. It seems they also had an unfortunate run-in with the Straw Man, apparently waking him as the directions warned against.
 ===Directions===
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 ::[An icon of a menacing face] 81. The '''Spectral Wolf''' fears only '''fire'''. The '''Google Maps Team''' can no longer help you, but if you master the '''wolf''', he will guide you. '''Godspeed.''' - go ?? mi
 {{comic discussion}}
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