Math Is Fun Forum

Hi all

Re the area etc, the report that I wrote is publicly available on request. It should be understandable to anyone familiar with calculus and basic trigonometry, so I do encourage you to read it. The point of finding out the area is purely to compare the areas given by using different methods.

The person who said that the widthways remainder on the paper is important, is absolutely correct, and obviously this fact is not contained in a formula for the area used. The answer is that you should be wrapping two or more things alongside each other so that the remainder does not have to be wasted. (If you were not going to do this, wrapping diagonally would be superior.)

Thank you for your comments.

Warwick Dumas