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There's 1 revolution every 2 seconds. The blanket is in the wringer for 40 seconds so there are n=20 revolutions. The diameter of the roller is about 3 inches so the circumference would be 9.42 in. So the length of the blanket would be circumference times n which is 188 in. Which seems a bit high but it's probably somewhere around that due to stretching
You have to consider a California King blanket is roughly 108x92, so a diagonal is 142 in. A king is 108x100, roughly speaking. That is a hypotenuse of 148.
An oversized blanket on a diagonal and being stretched out could hit that.
Plus, there may not be a 1:1 revolutions to blanket pulled through. Cal King or King blanket on a diagonal is my guess.
I totally couldn’t do the maths there, I just wanted to say in the UK we used to call this a mangle and way back they were hand operated. I know they’re called wingers too but I just fancied sharing.
We had a mechanical one of these at my previous job. But we used them to wring out the pads we used to soak up spilled/leaking oil. We'd collect the oil for recycling and the wringer made the pads safe...ish... for disposal in the trash.
Yeah, and in case anyone is wondering, it has etymologically nothing to do with mangle as in mutilate.
The former shares its etymology with the mangonel, a type of siege engine, and the latter with mayhem, which also used to mainly mean mutilation or some such bodily harm.
I read the title and then proceeded to watch it go on and on. I was expecting long but not like that. Seems much larger than the blanket the other commenter mentioned.
On a side note, I have a cousin who has a deformed right arm as a result of him getting it stuck in one of these and his mom panicking and hitting the reverse lever rather than the release lever.
I’ve been terrified of these things my entire life because of him.
Corner to corner, that's 169" with no stretching, that's pretty close to the guess from the top answer already, before accounting for things like stretch and slippage.
There isn't a law that says that blankets have to conform to bed sizes.
Even if it is a blanket meant for a California King, it almost certainly would be bigger than 110 inches. If it wasn't, it wouldn't cover the bed with a person underneath it.
Even assuming it is meant for a bed and sized relative to the bed size, there are many non-standard bed sizes that are much larger than a California King.
I really don't see what's wrong with the question, it's not a sophisticated one but it is actually one that can be answered with mathematics. I do see what's wrong with your answer, the belief that there's a magic size beyond which a blanket may not be.
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There's 1 revolution every 2 seconds. The blanket is in the wringer for 40 seconds so there are n=20 revolutions. The diameter of the roller is about 3 inches so the circumference would be 9.42 in. So the length of the blanket would be circumference times n which is 188 in. Which seems a bit high but it's probably somewhere around that due to stretching
You have to consider a California King blanket is roughly 108x92, so a diagonal is 142 in. A king is 108x100, roughly speaking. That is a hypotenuse of 148.
An oversized blanket on a diagonal and being stretched out could hit that.
Plus, there may not be a 1:1 revolutions to blanket pulled through. Cal King or King blanket on a diagonal is my guess.
I wish I was high on potenuse
That's... Umm that was my joke.
I said that earlier.
OUR joke, comrade.
Found Carlos Mencia's reddit account
I got a blanket from costco that looks exactly like the one in the video, and it is 120x120. I would bet that is the blanket in the video.
I totally couldn’t do the maths there, I just wanted to say in the UK we used to call this a mangle and way back they were hand operated. I know they’re called wingers too but I just fancied sharing.
We had a mechanical one of these at my previous job. But we used them to wring out the pads we used to soak up spilled/leaking oil. We'd collect the oil for recycling and the wringer made the pads safe...ish... for disposal in the trash.
Yeah, and in case anyone is wondering, it has etymologically nothing to do with mangle as in mutilate.
The former shares its etymology with the mangonel, a type of siege engine, and the latter with mayhem, which also used to mainly mean mutilation or some such bodily harm.
It can absolutely mangle you though.
It was corner to corner, it seems, judging by how much went through in the middle compared to either end, which could account for the extra length.
I read the title and then proceeded to watch it go on and on. I was expecting long but not like that. Seems much larger than the blanket the other commenter mentioned.
On a side note, I have a cousin who has a deformed right arm as a result of him getting it stuck in one of these and his mom panicking and hitting the reverse lever rather than the release lever.
I’ve been terrified of these things my entire life because of him.
This isn't a math question so much as a Google question.
A California king blanket can be about 110 inches. So that is the high end.
considerably longer, when you remember it's on a diagonal and stretched
It looks like a throw that I have from Costco, which is actually 120x120. So theres potential for more
Corner to corner, that's 169" with no stretching, that's pretty close to the guess from the top answer already, before accounting for things like stretch and slippage.
There isn't a law that says that blankets have to conform to bed sizes.
Even if it is a blanket meant for a California King, it almost certainly would be bigger than 110 inches. If it wasn't, it wouldn't cover the bed with a person underneath it.
Even assuming it is meant for a bed and sized relative to the bed size, there are many non-standard bed sizes that are much larger than a California King.
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I don’t know why you would bother responding to a post that you thought wasn’t worth spending effort on?
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You couldn't even be bothered to apply the Pythagorean theorem to state what the corner to corner might be based on your lazy guess.
I really don't see what's wrong with the question, it's not a sophisticated one but it is actually one that can be answered with mathematics. I do see what's wrong with your answer, the belief that there's a magic size beyond which a blanket may not be.
I'm pretty sure it's this blanket - https://www.samsclub.com/ip/oversized-cozy-night-cloud-throw-blanket-platinum/13714913643
110" x 132"
That'd be ~172 inches corner to corner. Could be right.
Wtf is it for? Orgies? Why you need a blanket big enough for six people?
Idk, I only ever had 5 people in mine, but most of us had pretty large tracts of land, so it was kinda crowded. 👀
$40 that’s not bad