Comment on Just one more square bro

PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This comes from a math problem where the squares size is fixed and you try to minimize the area they fit in

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  • PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah I know, but it’s terrible waffle design, there’s big flat chunks without syrup squares. It’s a huge amount of wasted area unable to hold syrup in any meaningful volume. It’s sad, really.

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    • my_hat_stinks@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You can’t fit 25 squares of the same size in that space. If you check the top row there’s 4 squares and space for slightly less than one more square, you can’t fit a 5x5 grid there unless you have smaller squares or a bigger waffle

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      • PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Maybe you couldn’t, I absolutely could. The space just looks smaller because there’s a diagonal square butting into it. Doesn’t matter anyway, making the squares smaller was my original comment that sparked this conversation, so I’m right both ways.

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• blackbrook@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s really volume you care about, for filling with syrup.

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  • kazerniel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Unrelated, but as a Hungarian, this association of waffles with syrup is so odd to see. Syrup is basically just sugar and water, isn’t it? Sounds pretty boring. As a kid we always put nutella on waffles 🤷

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    • blackbrook@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      We don’t put plain sugar syrup on waffles, we use maple syrup or sometimes a fruit syrup such as blueberry. Maple syrup has a very distinctive flavor.

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      • kazerniel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        thanks, that’s reassuring to know :D maple syrup is good, but imho nutella is better :9

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  • PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Good point. Pesky square-cube law gets me again. Having done three minutes of research on Wikipedia pages I didn’t fully understand, I think changing the square divots to spherical ones will give us the smallest surface area-to-volume ratio.

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    • mech@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nooo, Hexagons are the bestagons!

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