Baby worm is 10cm long. Mummy worm wants to knit a blanket that can be guaranteed to cover baby worm no matter how it curls up when its asleep. What is the minimum area of balnket required ?
(All usual assumptions - mathematical worm, so zero width, only two dimensional, etc)
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In <tim.722781061@giaeb> t...@giaeb.cc.monash.edu.au (Tim Roberts) writes:
>Baby worm is 10cm long. Mummy worm wants to knit a blanket that can be >guaranteed to cover baby worm no matter how it curls up when its asleep. What >is the minimum area of balnket required ? >(All usual assumptions - mathematical worm, so zero width, only two >dimensional, etc)
0 area - it's a sock.
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baby worm starts out lying in a straight line. he then curls and brings his head to his tail, keeping his tail in the same spot. he then uncurls into a straight line, keeping his head in the same spot and moving his tail to the spot 10 cm past where his tail originally was (on the vector starting at his original head spot and running through his original tail spot). he then curls and brings his head to his tail, keeping his tail in the same spot...
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