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What was the reason a three legged stool is the best? Doesn't that depend on your environment? E.g. the amount of gravity, perhaps wind, or the quality of mater
by asdff 4y ago
What was the reason a three legged stool is the best? Doesn't that depend on your environment? E.g. the amount of gravity, perhaps wind, or the quality of materials available to construct a stool?
- webstrand 4y agoThree points make a plane, a fourth point is redundant. Three equidistant stool legs are stable on any surface regardless of flatness, but four equidistant stool legs need to be aligned correctly with a non-flat surface to be stable.
- asdff 4y agoIf you live on a world where your wood is more like laffy taffy or whatever, maybe the stool buckles when it only has three legs.
- IIAOPSW 4y agoIf you're an oompa loompa living in Willie Wonka's world where there's no such thing as rigid construction and everything is candy, the ability to have any level of technological civilization (including stool building) is dubious.