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[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 37 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The engineering way to do it. Why go through the trouble of perfectly modeling it if you can just test a few times. Either that or consider the jug a cylinder and add a safety factor of 2.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

It also gives you a way to validate your calculations when you inevitably do model it.

[–] sga 5 points 6 months ago

the safety factor got me