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To: PieterCasparzen; mmichaels1970; MNDude

Okay, let’s try to save the question:

Baby blankets are rectangular with length to width ratio approximating the golden mean (1+sqrt(5))/2 ). Since A is infeasible, and the length to width ratios needed for a perimeter 15 or perimeter 21 unit blanket are further from the golden mean that that needed for a perimeter 14 blanket, the answer is B.

(Having length to width ratio approximating the golden mean *is* a property baby blankets typically exhibit, while having exact integer length and width in “units”, which should be empirically on the order of a foot is not.)


201 posted on 03/10/2015 9:51:41 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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To: The_Reader_David

Has anyone considered how much you need if you cut the border on the bias?


207 posted on 03/11/2015 2:55:32 AM PDT by chalkfarmer
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