On Exactitude in Science

So this is what this very short story, this one paragraph by Jorge Luis Borges does as well.

And it's on exactitude in science.

And I'll read it and then we'll go from there.

On exactitude in science, Jorge Luis Borges collected fictions translated by Andrew Hurley.

In that empire, the art of cartography attained such perfection that the map of a single province occupied the entirety of a city, and the map of the empire the entirety of a province.

In time, those unconscionable maps no longer satisfied, and the cartographers' guilds struck a map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it.