Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth
2018/04/09 by Rohan Chabukswar, Kushal Mukherjee, Chabukswar, Rohan +1 · 6 voices · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Historical Geography and Cartography #math.HO
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1804.07389
openalex publication_date 2018/04/09 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Abstract
There has been some interest recently in determining the longest distance one can sail for on the earth without hitting land, as well as in the converse problem of determining the longest distance one could drive for on the earth without encountering a major body of water. In its basic form, this is an optimisation problem, rendered chaotic by the presence of islands and lakes, and indeed the fractal nature of the coasts. In this paper we present a methodology for calculating the two paths using the branch-and-bound algorithm.
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- Quelle est la plus longue distance qu'un bateau peut parcourir sur Terre en allant toujours tout droit ? Réponse : 32 090 km Pour cela, il faut partir de Sonmiani au Pakistan et filer tout droit jusqu [bsky, 172 points, 20 comments]
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- Science says it's the longest possible route: arxiv.org/abs/1804.07389 [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]
- Great stuff. ----- Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth Rohan Chabukswar^1 and Kushal Mukherjee^2 1 United Technologies Research Center Ireland 2 IBM Research India April 23, 20 [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]
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