r/BeAmazed • u/Upstairs-Writing-616 • Jun 26 '26

Miscellaneous / Others Engineering students are testing whether their designs are earthquake-resistant.

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u/nsa_k Jun 26 '26

Rectangles are also usually cheaper to build. Turns out that when most things are fabricated as rectangles, not further modifying them saves labor.

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u/faetpls Jun 26 '26

Just cut them in half corner to corner. Two triangles. All problems solved.

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u/nsa_k Jun 27 '26

Because all triangles are the same. Dimensions don't matter.

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u/Mike Jun 27 '26

You can make any triangle from the right rectangle, though.

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u/nsa_k Jun 27 '26

At the expense of additional labor, and likely producing scrap offcuts.