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Re:Poll: Where do you live? by jeromegv on Friday February 04, 2022 @03:19PM (#30212472)
And larger than all the remaining 49 states. Why divide by states then?
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Re:Poll: Where do you live? by jessriedel on Saturday February 05, 2022 @06:02PM (#30227243)
Because the alternative to not dividing by states is have a monolithic US, vastly larger than all other geographic units.

Like, pick a threshold of size N. Start at the top, divide at countries, and the recursively keep dividing any given node until you have passed under the threshold N. California gets divided before Canada (and the UK).

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