I'm sorry brother fitskarz and BB

I have been preping for exams and completely

forgot about posting the answer to my plywood question.

Please forgive my actions as my brain has been in study mode

the past few days and it hurts bigly right now.

Any ways...My question was...

What is the biggest circle you can cut out of a 4' x 8' sheet of plywood??

(a)   5'

(b)   5.5'

(c)   4'

(d)   could care less...show me the 10k   lol

The answer is (b)   5'

Formula

If you lay a 4' x 8' sheet of plywood on the ground

Looking down on the plywood...starting from the left side bottm edge of the plywood,

take a tape measure and measure over from left to right and place a mark at 30''

which is 1/2 of 5'...

Use the 30'' mark as your center radius line/pivot point and with a pencil held at the end

of the tape in your left hand, draw a line as you rotate around the 30'' radius mark from left to right until you get to the right side bottom edge of the plywood.

You should see a 1/2 circle which represents 1/2 of a 5' in diameter

circle.

Now if you walk around to the opposite side of the plywood and pull

the same 30'' measurement again starting from left to right at the bottom edge of the plywood..and

mark 30'' as you radius point, when holding your pencil in your left hand at the end of the tape you will now

using the 30'' radius mark as you pivot point, draw another 1/2 of a 5' diammeter circle. You will see

that the line from the first 1/2 circle and the line from the second 1/2 circle meet and just touch

each other in the middle of the sheet of plywood but don't over lap or cross. Where the two lines touch

will measure 2 1/2' from either the bottom or top edge of the plywood. Exactly!

Now, cut the plywood ( with an OSHA approved of course)

saw or other means...lol and put the two half's together forming a 5' diameter circle.

I hope I stated this in a manor that that is understood by all.

BB? with your DD insite, I thought you might have got this...I'm disappointed in ya bro  lol

Thats ok sir...your not alone... few folks do.

Lots of $ won in the field when showing this to fellow carpenters.

Most say it can't be done...

As far as the float BB? Yoda is close at 1.5 bil. I think... but I come

up with 993,195,714 or close to that with numbers through the 3Q of last year... Best guess I can do bro...

Go RFMK

Howie