A line, not a patch
Japan on this board is the archipelago, roughly north to south, 3,000 kilometres. It is not a land area. New Zealand is the country, roughly north to south, 1,600 kilometres. It is not a land area either. Both axes are long. A reach is the span of the version the fact named, a ruler laid from the northern end to the southern end. It is not the paint inside the coastline. If you came from a memory of colored regions, you brought the wrong kind of size. The colored region would be area. These figures are lengths. Length is the only question on the line.
Roughly means the figure is a chosen span, not a survey of every inlet. 3,000 kilometres for the archipelago and 1,600 kilometres for the country are the spans this board uses. You do not get to tighten them with a coastline from a flight. The red outline after lock-in grades the span you were given. Do not add a width across the islands and call it the same question. For Japan the fact says the archipelago. For New Zealand the fact says the country. Stay inside that sentence. A different map with the same name is a version you were not offered.
Not quite two
3,000 divided by 1,600 is 1.875. Japan's archipelago reach is not quite twice New Zealand's country reach. Not quite two is the whole interesting fact. A ratio of two scores 45 when your guess really is twice the truth, or half of it. Here the truth itself is 1.875, so a spoken twice is only a slight stretch, not proof that you pictured a different ocean. Within 6 percent scores 100. A miss of 1.12 scores 90. The stretch from 1.875 up to a clean two lives near those tight marks. Say not quite two. Then stop embroidering it.
Half and double are the same kind of miss only when the ratio between guess and truth is two. Do not hear 1.875 and then lock in a Japan that is barely longer than New Zealand because the word twice made you shy. Shy is still a ratio. The picture should show Japan's reach clearly longer, and not twice as long. 1,600 kilometres beside 3,000 kilometres is that picture. If the white shape is a clean double of the black one, you have pushed a near-two into two and a bit past the truth. Ease back. Not quite two is a sentence you can see on the stage.
A longer mainland reach
Chile enters as another reach, not as a correction to Japan. Mainland Chile, north to south, is 4,270 kilometres. 4,270 divided by 3,000 is about 1.42. Chile's mainland reach is longer than Japan's archipelago reach. Longer does not mean the two versions are the same kind. One figure is a mainland. The other is an archipelago. The fact line picked one version for each name. About 1.42 is the comparison of those chosen reaches, and only those. A player who says they are about the same has ignored 1.42. A player who says Chile is twice Japan has overshot the same figure.
About 1.42 is a larger ratio than 1.2, which scores 78, and a larger ratio than four thirds, which scores 62. It is not a ratio of two, which scores 45. Equal is the wrong story. Double is the wrong story in the other direction. The right story is about 1.42, a bit under one and a half, with the versions spoken out loud: mainland against archipelago. Drop the version words and 1.42 starts to sound like a claim about countries in general. It is not. It is a claim about two reaches the catalog already defined. Say mainland. Say archipelago. Then say 1.42.
The label is the version
Italy is the mainland boot, north to south, 1,180 kilometres. It is another reach, shorter than New Zealand's 1,600 kilometres, shorter than Japan's 3,000 kilometres, and shorter than Chile's 4,270 kilometres. No fresh quotient for Italy is part of this note. The stated ratios stay 1.875 and about 1.42. Italy's job is a fourth version label: mainland boot. Archipelago, country, mainland, mainland boot. Four labels. The fact line picks one per place. Swapping a label is a version error. You grade the reach that was named, not the reach you wish the name had meant. Shorter, here, does not need a new decimal.
Different versions are not a trick. An archipelago reach is the string the fact named. A mainland reach is not that string. A country reach is the country, roughly north to south. A boot is the mainland shape the fact named, not extra islands a reader wants to attach. If your memory of Italy is more than the boot, you are remembering a version this number refused. If your memory of Japan is a single island, you are remembering a version the archipelago number refused. The catalog does not print the refused version. Do not supply one. Grade the label that is already on the line.
Do not square the reach
A length squared starts to look like an area because the units change in your head. It is not the area of Japan, not the area of New Zealand, and not the area of Chile or Italy. Those squares are not printed here, because a printed square would look like a measurement and it would be an invention. The reach is the measurement. Squaring 3,000 or 1,600 or 4,270 or 1,180 does not create a land area the board will grade. People square a reach to make a long place feel like a large place. Large, for area, is a different question. The length cannot answer it.
The warning is practical. Square Japan's reach and then try to compare that product with a real region, and you have left the catalog. Length and area are never paired. The board refuses the pair, because a ratio between them would be a unit error wearing a score. A 3,000 kilometre reach can belong to a sprawling chain. You do not get the shape inside the chain from the reach alone, and you are not asked to. Keep the kilometre. Leave the square undone. Compare, which has no score, still will not pair a reach with an area. No score does not make a unit error legal.
Lock a reach, not a map
Say the label, then the multiple. Japan, archipelago, 3,000 kilometres. New Zealand, country, 1,600 kilometres, and Japan is 1.875 of that reach, not quite two. Chile, mainland, 4,270 kilometres, about 1.42 of Japan's archipelago reach, so the mainland reach is the longer one. Italy, mainland boot, 1,180 kilometres, a shorter reach than the other three, with no extra ratio required. The slider is still the reference times 0.012 to times 120, wider than the answer on purpose. 1.875 is not hiding at the end of the track. Neither is 1.42. Ride the picture. Leave the ends of the track alone.
Compare has no score, which is the right place to see two reaches side by side before a weighted day. Unlimited has neither those daily weights nor a streak. The weights on a five-round day are one, one, two, three, and three, and a perfect five is 1,000. Today's answers stay closed until you finish or you explicitly look. There is no account. The board is local to this browser only. The red outline is the truth after lock-in, and it will show a length. If you wanted an area, you asked a question this pair will not grade. Say the reach again, then lock the silhouette.