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hombre_fatal
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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
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Diagonally, because the hole is 1.4 times wider diagonally than the cover is on each side
hombre_fatal
on April 24, 2020
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Me dumb. The hole would have to be much smaller.
patrickyeon
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Diagonally. The length of a side is considerably shorter (1/sqrt(2) times shorter, actually) than the diagonal.
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