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by notatoad 1016 days ago
engineering takes into account material properties. the engineering solution is "no, that tension is way inside the design tolerances"

the stack overflow answers are math.

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The top rated answer was math, but it ignored the possibility that a section of track would be under tension to avoid intersecting with itself. For a mathematical curve that’s no issue, but physical objects add additional constraints to the problem.