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Re:When Math Gets Impossibly Hard by lopmotr on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @06:03PM (#24498520)
Engineers used to use the shape of a soap bubble to calculate the torsional stiffness or perhaps stress distribution of a non-circular shaft.

http://www.newsteelconstruction.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/Te...

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Re:When Math Gets Impossibly Hard by ghj on Thursday September 17, 2020 @12:34AM (#24501214)
Soap film is also used to solve the steiner problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAyDi1aa40E
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