Total length of cuts needed: 240 km

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• Manual cutting rate: approximately 12 pieces per hour, 100 per dayfinding0.722
  Estimated average speed for a craftsman cutting one piece every 5 minutes.
• Mean piece diameter 15 cm, mean edge length 60 cmfinding0.714
  Derived from the sample statistics to estimate cutting requirements.
• Single craftsman manual cutting time: 11 yearsfinding0.706
  Based on a rate of 12 pieces per hour, 100 per day, for 400,000 pieces.
• Water-jet cutting time: 6 months using 3 machines continuouslyfinding0.683
  Estimated production rate for cutting all 400,000 pieces with water-jet technology.
• Design time estimate: 1 year for 100 sections at 2 weeks eachfinding0.669
  Estimated time to design the floor with full-scale physical mockups section by section.
• Roughly 2,000 long sequences, each containing ~20 smaller snippets, thus about 40,000 short sequences could completely transform the built environment.claim0.668
  Quantitative estimate of the scope of the gene pool needed for a living world.
• Less than a trillionth of all the 6 × 10^23 possible sequences actually work well enough to allow smooth unfolding.quote0.667
  Alexander's striking quantification of the rarity of good sequences, underscoring why finding the right order is so difficult and precious.
• Optimal main street width determined to be 18 meters in Oakland simulation for Frankfurt projectfinding0.660
  Through real-place simulation in Oakland, California, for the Frankfurt Parkstadt project, a width of 18 meters felt right (20m too wide, 16m too narrow) for an east-west main street with 3-4 story buildings.