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[โ€“] drop_table_username@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

No he's right. The solution for an optimal surface area to volume ratio is a sphere. The farther you deviate from a sphere the less optimal you become. The actual math for this is finding deltaSurfaceArea in respects to cylinder radius for a given volume and then finding the maxima, which is a Uni physics 1 problem I really don't feel like doing. Long story short, optimal is when height = diameter, or as close to a sphere as a cylinder can be.

[โ€“] capuccino@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Thanks fot the aclaration.