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Again: What does that mean? You are not offering explanations, only words, curiosity-stopping ruses. "4.2"? What kind of object is that? Is it even in the language?
It is meaningful to pose the possibility that our map has a certain very surprising property. In particular, we can consider the possibility that one of our cartography tools, which we thought was very reliable, doesn't behave the way that we thought it did. The story gives one partially-conceived manner in which this could happen.