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It isn't anything terribly monumental, but I am at least a quarter of the way to the next power of ten.

 

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I meant to make an elaborate exposition about how, now that I've collected eight hundred balls of yarn, I could perhaps make a lovers' telephone connecting Maple Island to the rest of the world. Some brief research suggests that a ball of yarn can range from anywhere between sixty to several hundred metres.

Trouble is that once I started gathering metrics regarding the size of Maple Island and the expanse separating the island and the rest of the Maple World, I found the distances—allowing for an outrageous amount of extrapolation—to be comically small. Let us study the issue:

Let us first consider the size of Maple Island. We do so by first consider the length of Amherst, which we find it takes roughly twenty-eight and a half seconds to cross without speed enhancing equipment.

Now, knowing that the average ambulatory speed is something in the order of five kilometres per hour, or 1.4 metres per second (forgiving the significant digits), the above measurement would suggest that Amherst is just shy of forty metres long.

We now consult the map of Maple Island:

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In a demonstration of supreme generosity we consider the length of Amherst as only the diameter of its blue spot on this map. If we measure this as a fraction of the length of Maple Island from the leftmost peak to the rightmost bit of land, just above the main mast of Shank's ship, we find that the island spans a distance forty-four times as long as the town of Amherst.

We therefore have an approximate length of the island along this particular axis of one thousand seven hundred and sixty metres.

We then bring forth the majestic world map:

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We see now why we opted for that particular axis along which to measure Maple Island: it corresponds quite nicely with the island as projected on this map. We note that, in order to reach the interior of Victoria Island we require a distance of something in the order of three times the length of Maple Island, ignoring any change in elevation. This amounts to five kilometres and change.

This would allow my yarn collection, even with the conservative estimate of sixty metres per ball, to span the distance between the two islands nine times.

Who's on for knitting club on Wednesday?