What If?

2014 non-fiction book by Randall Munroe
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What If?

Summary

What If? is a literary work[1]. What If? ranks in the top 4% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (112 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • What If? authored Randall Munroe[3].
  • What If?'s instance of is recorded as literary work[4].
  • What If?'s based on is recorded as xkcd What-If[5].
  • What If?'s followed by is recorded as What If? 2[6].
  • What If?'s language of work or name is recorded as English[7].
  • What If?'s country of origin is recorded as United States[8].
  • What If?'s publication date is recorded as +2014-09-02T00:00:00Z[9].
  • What If?'s Freebase ID is recorded as /m/011tzqhz[10].
  • What If?'s Open Library ID is recorded as OL17095301W[11].
  • What If?'s has edition or translation is recorded as What If?[12].
  • What If?'s has edition or translation is recorded as What If?[13].
  • What If?'s main subject is recorded as science[14].
  • What If?'s LibraryThing work ID is recorded as 14832433[15].
  • What If?'s described by source is recorded as explain xkcd[16].
  • What If?'s title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'What If?'}[17].
  • What If?'s title is recorded as {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'Et si... ?'}[18].
  • What If?'s title is recorded as {'lang': 'sv', 'text': 'Tänk om …'}[19].
  • What If?'s subtitle is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions'}[20].
  • What If?'s subtitle is recorded as {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'Toutes les réponses les plus scientifiques aux questions que vous ne vous êtes jamais posées'}[21].
  • What If?'s subtitle is recorded as {'lang': 'sv', 'text': 'Seriösa vetenskapliga svar på absurda hypotetiska frågor'}[22].
  • What If?'s different from is recorded as What If[23].
  • What If?'s different from is recorded as The F Word[24].
  • What If?'s Quora topic ID is recorded as What-If-XKCD[25].
  • What If?'s Goodreads work ID is recorded as 40714465[26].

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Works and Contributions

What If? authored Randall Munroe[3].

Why It Matters

What If? ranks in the top 4% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (112 views/month).[2] What If? has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] What If? is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  7. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  14. [16] . explainxkcd.com. explainxkcd.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . Goodreads. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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