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The Mathematics of Rope

Posted April 14, 2010 7:58 AM

From Neatorama:

Rope has always been, well, rope. The ancient Egyptians made their ropes essentially the same way we make ours today. This is because the optimum configuration of tension and turns makes a strong rope that won't stretch or twist. A recent study by Jakob Bohr and Kasper Olsen at the Technical University of Denmark gives us some of the math involved in making a good rope.

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04/14/2010 10:51 AM

Which came first - string theory or rope theory?

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05/04/2010 4:43 PM

Now that's a knotty problem.

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