This sub got part of this wrong yesterday. The triangle is not always worse than the square. [Self]

After seeing how insistent people were that the triangle is always worse than the square, I had to do the math. It depends on the coefficient of friction, and as can be seen, it's not unreasonable in this problem to assume the square and the triangle require the same amount of force.

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