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Re: Bumper Qs

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Originally Posted by burkey_turkey View Post
now here's the tough question:

What if you have a fractal bumper on one part of your robot's perimeter, giving it infinite perimter. That way you wouldn't have to cover the rest of your robot in bumpers and you would still be legal (infinity/(infinty + constant) > 2/3)

................jk ;-)
The real question here is what size of infinity? If it is a small infinity in the numerator and a larger infinity in the denominator then you get effectively zero. Reverse that and the bumpers cover more than the length of the perimeter.
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