the land of gelp becomes (5*10-7)º off

One of the many problems confronting queen mauve in the land of gelp was tilting. The town boasted it’s straightness. It was perfectly perpendicular, and won several awards for it. But one day that all changed.

On a Thursday in late summer, the town angle measurer woke up early. He had had a hard time sleeping. He crawled out of bed, and dragged himself into the kitchen where he ate an egg and some toast. When he was done, he brushed his teeth, donned a jacket and went to work. He measured the castle, but it was off by a third of a degree. He checked it again. Still off by 5*10^-7 degrees. Then he checked the ground around the castle. Also off 5*10^-7 degrees. He checked the shops, they were of by 5*10^-7 degrees. Then he began to panic. He ran around measuring all of the land of gelp. No matter where he went, it was always 5*10^-7 degrees off of the perpendicular. He didn’t know what to do.

In lue of a better option, the town angle measurer panicked. He panicked of better part of an hour. When he was done, he had another egg. Hard boiled. It was perfect, just the right hardness, with a light and fluffy youlk, and not even the slightest tinge of grey. He decided to tell the queen.

Just outside of the queens throne room, the town angle measurer steeled himself. He stepped inside.

He was thrown off by the shear amount of pink.

“Wow” he said.

“do you like how I redecorated?” asked the queen.

“Its very pink” noted the angle measurer.

“yes it is. Did you come for a reason or did you come to comment on my pink room of world renown?” she inquired.

At this, the town angle measurer broke down. “o! my fair queen, a thousand apologies for burdening you heart with such a tragic turn of events, o! woeful day! The town is 5*10^-7 degrees off of perpendicular!”

“who is responsible for this?” shouted the queen.

“I know not, my liege, I shall begin an inquire at once!” he resolved. He strode forth from the throne room and went strait to the knight-detective Amiagug. Amiagug called several assistants, and the assistants called friends, and those friends called friends, and soon the entire land of gelp was in an uproar.

The knight-detective Amiagug set to work immediate after that. After a long and complicated process that only he seamed to understand, the knight-detective Amiagug strode to the northern border of the land of gelp, right up to the mountains of terror, and there he found the candied man.

The candied man tried to make the knight-detective Amiagug go away, but he remained undeterred. When the knight-detective Amaigug finaly sidestepped the candied man, he found a stack of small chocolate mints holding the town up. The knight detective Amaigug removed the three mints, and the town was back to normal again.




writers notes:
5*10^-7 is scientific notation for 0.0000005. +10 points to anyone who can figure out how long the land of gelp is form south to north if the mints used where .5 cm tall. (the approximate hight of an andes mint . originally the town was going to be off by .3 degrees, but this would take 29.9995 m of mints, or about 3140 mints (note: I make a mistake on this math, so don't use this to find the length of the land of gelp). after much deliberation, I decided on this.