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I'm not a science student so sorry if this sounds dumb, but can you not just do a computer simulation and run it (bruteforce) with varying rope lengths until yo
by dartharva 6y ago
I'm not a science student so sorry if this sounds dumb, but can you not just do a computer simulation and run it (bruteforce) with varying rope lengths until you get the right one for one acre, then repeat the process for other areas till you get a list of areas and needed rope lengths, then do some regression on that list to get a close enough formula?
- phnofive 6y agoThat’s essentially what this replaces - which had been done without the aid of simulations.
- dmurray 6y agoYou just need to do the simulation once. It's an elementary result that if the solution for a circle of radius 1 is k, the solution for a circle of radius 2 will be 2k. That was already done in the 19th century without computers. But like you say, that gives only a "close enough" formula. Close enough for farmers, or even rocket engineers who might need much more precision, but not good enough for mathematicians.