The reason Pringles fit so nicely in a cylindrical tube is because they're hyperbolic paraboloids plotted over a circular domainpic.twitter.com/BUzjPw7e17
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just bought a pack of pringles & i'm starting to think the actual support region is slightly elliptic but i don't think anyone cares
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Varying the semi-major axis of the Pringles' support regionpic.twitter.com/ZotI1Fwlxp
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Cast the shadow on a paper.
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already did
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“I need this tube of pringles.....for science”
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i care if i can use a function to describe a pringle's shape, then i can define it's surface area by the area integral of that function, and this will tell me exactly how much chocolate i need to melt
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Actually, I was gonna say this. So, some of us care. Not sure what it says about us, though.
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I think the only thing that is in parallel to this analysis is that of the Batman curve:https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/54506/is-this-batman-equation-for-real …
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I care mate.
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I did
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