The “Square Cube Law”
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Suppose you need potato peels for a recipe. You want a lot of peel and the interior is irrelevant today. Should you buy one big 8kg spud or eight 1kg ones? It’s the same cost in this example because potatoes are sold by mass not size but it still makes a difference which you choose:
The one big potato will get you 8x the mass of the smaller ones but for your recipe you don’t get 8x as much peel. It’s more like only 4x as much peel. In fact the bigger the potato you buy the less peel you get for your money.
You decide instead to buy a ton of 200g salad potatoes and get a spud ton more peel that way, wasting much less interior material.
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