Okay, Brad, some good science happened this week that I learned about on the blue skies.

Hang on.

Is there such a thing as bad science before we get into this?

I feel like there's been some medical research done at different periods of time and history that I would describe as probably bad science.

That's a darker place than I expected you to go with this.

Maybe let's talk about the good science. Yeah. So this is good science. That's a darker place than I expected you to go with this. Maybe let's let's talk about the good science. Yeah. So this is good science. They have figured out that there is a

fixed ratio of total area of a puzzle to the amount of space you need to lay out all of the

pieces of the puzzle unassembled so that you can see

like see and access all the pieces so you know how big your table needs to be like you can look

at your table figure out what its area is and figure out what the biggest the maximum size puzzle

you can use on that table is talking about a jigsaw puzzle to be be clear. Jigsaw, this is serious science, Brad.

Jigsaw puzzles, yes.

I am no mathematician.

I don't know if I've got my term straight.

Is there some kind of transform or something that you need to do as you start completing

the puzzle?

Once you start putting the pieces in place, do the parameters change of the space required?

Well, I think that area is going to get smaller right

because it gets more compressed right yeah yes um but the tlDR and this was uh madeline bonzma

fissure posted this who's m bansma uh bskye dot social uh they have a they have an archive post

that explains the math behind it all uh the upshot is an unassembled jigsaw

puzzle takes up an area that is the square root of three times the area of the assembled puzzle

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