• tetris11@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    The real question is, to how many iterations does the hamster say “Eh, good enough”

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      Well, “hairs” are quantized phenomenon…

      So at some finite time, it will be all gone. At least if the thing is happening fast enough for it not to grow back at a similar time-frame.

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        Kinda. At the last strand I expect them to switch to length.

        But yeah, at some point should be good enough

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          But hair is still made up of discrete quantity of “stuff”

          Well, eventually you get to a point where hairs grow quickly enough that the haircuts effectively stop. I think the sum total of hair material you trend towards at the limit would be the sum of length of hair that grows during the time it takes to do a haircut. Whether it’s 1x or 2x of the hair growth amount depends on whether you measure at the start, or end, of the haircut