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I get it! And when you get to the end of THAT row you find that you have to chop off a little more
than before. And on each row you more and more off from the original! If it's even a tiny
bit off at first, with enough rows you'll eventually see how far off it is.
Exactly. And the same thing happens when microwaves don't fit evenly inside the oven. After bouncing
back and forth a bunch of times they end up so "out of phase" with the first wave that they end up
cancelling each other.
So THAT's why any microwaves that don't fit an "integer" number of times in the oven end up
cancelling themselves. NOW I get it! Good analogy, Dr. Hellman!
Below is an applet you can play with. Use the buttons to adjust the size of the floor, and see what
happens to the layout. The digital counter tells you how many tiles will fit across for the
current floor size.
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