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Maybe you're being facetious, but for a CNC operator they might find it useful in an unusual machining job- they probably stick with a hexagonal lattice and rec
by parsimo2010 7y ago
Maybe you're being facetious, but for a CNC operator they might find it useful in an unusual machining job- they probably stick with a hexagonal lattice and rectangular stock most of the time. Or a chip foundry might find it useful if they are maximize yields in a wafer of silicon.
It probably isn't immediately applicable to every single person's life but it might help some industries squeeze another 0.1% out of their production line. The free work presented here might cover a couple engineer's salaries once they find this website.
- mikepurvis 7y agoI feel like the more valuable thing would probably be the generalization of "fit as many of [irregular polygon] into the least number of length inches of material width X." OTOH, there are a lot of these math toys that start life in the abstract and then end up finding extremely practical applications down the line— pretty sure that was the case for a lot of the dusty corners of linear algebra until 3D graphics was suddenly a thing and it all became super relevant very quickly.
- terminalhealth 7y agoI personally just used this to drill a bunch of vent holes, though N = 37.