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Old 01-22-2006, 05:11 PM
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How long is a piece of string?
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Old 01-22-2006, 05:34 PM
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Precisely twice as long as half its length.
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Precisely twice as long as half its length.
No, three times half its length. You aren't taking into account friction.
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It is as long as you cut it
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It's two times longer than it's radius multiplied by the ambient air temperature divided by the relative humidty squared. Then add in the textile relativity factor and subtract six. That should be it.
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"A Piece of String" Quartet by Ganelin is 4 minutes and 4 seconds long.
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Longer than you might imagine.
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duh.. its infinitely long
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I would answer this, but I don't know anything about string theory. Damn.
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