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| + | <blockquote>This is not actually possible, since a knit garment is not made from one long thread of yarn, but many interwoven threads.</blockquote> | ||
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| + | This is actually wrong; knitting is a technique for entangling a single yarn with itself in such a way that it forms a fabric. (It's not to be confused with ''weaving'', which does indeed use many, shorter threads.) In practice, a large, complex item like a sweater is made from multiple pieces sewn together, but it would have something like a single digit number of separate yarns. | ||
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| + | Incidentally, a sweater contains on the order of a kilometer of yarn, which is also about the minimum safe distance for skydiving, so this scenario passes the Fermi estimate sniff test. | ||
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| + | [[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.100|162.158.159.100]] 00:55, 4 March 2025 (UTC) | ||
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This is not actually possible, since a knit garment is not made from one long thread of yarn, but many interwoven threads.
This is actually wrong; knitting is a technique for entangling a single yarn with itself in such a way that it forms a fabric. (It's not to be confused with weaving, which does indeed use many, shorter threads.) In practice, a large, complex item like a sweater is made from multiple pieces sewn together, but it would have something like a single digit number of separate yarns.
Incidentally, a sweater contains on the order of a kilometer of yarn, which is also about the minimum safe distance for skydiving, so this scenario passes the Fermi estimate sniff test.
162.158.159.100 00:55, 4 March 2025 (UTC)
