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raverbashing on May 14, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why can you turn clothing right-side-out?

Actually, in real clothes it would be difficult to turn it inside out through a small tear

Topologically possible, but with a physical constraint (or more likely, you increase the tear trying to do it)

psyconn on May 14, 2012 [–]

I would further argue that there is a special size of the hole beyond which turning a thing inside out takes less than optimal time.

I don't know the math, but empirical data seems to confirm the hypothesis so maybe someone can provide the math name of the special hole.

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