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		hombre_fatal on April 17, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hand Scraping a Truly Flat Plane (1908) [pdf] But that works with equilateral polygons as well. How would a square lid fall into a smaller square hole?

mattclarkdotnet on April 17, 2020 | [–]

Diagonally, because the hole is 1.4 times wider diagonally than the cover is on each side

hombre_fatal on April 24, 2020 | | [–]

Me dumb. The hole would have to be much smaller.

patrickyeon on April 17, 2020 | [–]

Diagonally. The length of a side is considerably shorter (1/sqrt(2) times shorter, actually) than the diagonal.

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