Makes Makes for a Perfect Tree: This is truly for the meticulous, most fastidiuos Christmas tree decorator, who really must have just the right mix of lights, ornaments and tinsel distributed perfectly on the ole Tannenbaum.

It is a mathematical formula that one can use to design the most perfect tree. It was created students Nicole Wrightman and Alex Craig of the University of Sheffield in the U.K. Their “treegonometry” takes into the account the height of a tree in order to calculate the ideal number of ornaments, length of tinsel, length of lights and location of the star on top.

Get out your calculator, folks. Here it is:

• Number of baubles = √17 / 20 x (tree height in cms)
• Length of tinsel (cms) = 13 x Π / 8 x (tree height in cms)
• Length of lights (cms) = Π x (tree height in cms)
• Height of star/fairy/angel (cms) = height of tree in cms /10

Happy decorating!

via Gizmag

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