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Riddle #04 • Creative thinking 4 min Medium
Make it lighter, not weaker: a long engineering contradiction in one sentence
The part must lose weight without losing strength, and every obvious cut seems to trade one for the other. How do you resolve the contradiction instead of compromising?
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