math
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Angles and Precision
I have experience in the housebuilding, construction world. I used to joke with my workers when they’d talk about measurement in sixteenths. “Sixteenths? I didn’t know they made fractions smaller than eighths.” And in homebuilding, unless you are a finish carpenter, there is seldom need to take such fine measurements. Not so much in building…
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Math is Hard – Calculating a Waterline
Who would have thought boatbuilding would involve so much math? I was reading Glen L. Witt’s Boatbuilding With Plywood and realized what should have been obvious to me: The waterline of a boat is calculated beforehand. I guess it makes sense that boatbuilders don’t guesstimate their designs only to drop their boats into the water…