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by mmmmmmmike 766 days ago
Yeah, and even given that, there’s the question of how exactly it deforms from its flattened shape to make a spiral (and if this changes the area). I wouldn’t agree with the “correct” answer if the tape was very thick, but given that the answer is .005 cm, it’s probably thin enough that such an approximation is okay.