Ha, this answer is clearly wrong and US based. Obviously it’s 15 cm too short.
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D(2) = L
Where D is the distance from the center to one end point, and where L is the total length.
Now I just wait for the part where someone tells me I’m wrong. 
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L = (SQRT(2D))[sup]2[/sup].
Of course, if the string were twisted into a mobius strip it would be twice as long as its length.
We used to argue about this question when I was a kid. It was right up there with the questions “If your nose was on strike, would you picket?”
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L = (SQRT(2D))[sup]2[/sup].
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Am I the only one who always reads “SQRT” as SQUIRT, and giggles?
What’s the squirt of 25? Hee hee.
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If we gave an exact length for the string it would just embolden the terrorists.
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Or embiggen
A piece of string is as long as it is.
One cannot say that the string is or is not. If you do so, then you confuse the string with your concept of the string. Mediate upon the suchness of the string, and questions about length vanish into nothingness.
[QUOTE=Mangetout]
I don’t know if this helps, but on the offchance… Could I just point out that one shaftment is equal to a little over 1.5 fists, or just over one tenth of a goad.
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And exactly how many rundlets are there in a tierce?
This is devolving into string theory.
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One cannot say that the string is or is not.
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There is no string.
[QUOTE=Ethilrist]
A piece of string is as long as it is.
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I think that would depend entirely on what your definition of is is.
In ASCII, a string representing n characters is n bytes long, unless you’re using the DOS Return convention, in which case it’s n + m bytes long, where m is the number of characters in your string that are return characters.
[QUOTE=Mangetout]
Indeed so; I mitigate this situation by keeping all of my pieces of string that are too short in a drawer labelled “pieces of string too short to be of use”.
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I think you’re giving up too easily.
The very act of observing the string changes its properties.
A piece of string is 14 letters long, or 17 characters including spaces.
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A piece of string is 14 letters long, or 17 characters including spaces.
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But what is the third word?
[QUOTE=cards]
The very act of observing the string changes its properties.
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Especially if it’s a string bikini :eek:
[QUOTE=Ludovic]
In ASCII, a string representing n characters is n bytes long, unless you’re using the DOS Return convention, in which case it’s n + m bytes long, where m is the number of characters in your string that are return characters.
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Don’t forget to add 1 byte for the terminating NUL, which is counted in many popular programming languages.
[QUOTE=cards]
The very act of observing the string changes its properties.
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Which is to say, we can’t tell you how long it is, but we can tell you how fast it’s moving: It’s just sitting there. 'cuz it’s string. :rolleyes:
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But what is the third word?
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What’s on second.