006 = Squaring Shirts and Testing Toasters
A Problem Squared
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How to Measure Your 500 Equal Shapes
If we attack it from a two-dimensional plane and we assume that and that the collar is circular, then it's actually a lot simpler than we originally thought. So can you tell our listeners and Matt roughly what was the shape and measurements that I should do for my 500 equal shapes? Yeah, so we ended up with about 8,000 square centimeters, which sounds like a lot. But considering that there's a front and a back and it's a fair sized shape, it's about right for a medium mens. And if we have an 8,000 sq cm shape and we're dividing by 500 should, should, get us around that 16 square centimeter mark.
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