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I guess the obvious question is "given x amount of slack per piece, after how many pieces can I fit in on piece the wrong way without tension", but that feels more like an engineering problem than a math puzzle.


then what would an engineer use to solve the problem?


In this case not-so-brute force of fitting actual pieces, since it won't take that many. And otherwise estimates based on highly simplified approximations.




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