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This question was written by an engineer
There’s good reasons they engineers over calculate, because they know things break, that people don’t do regular maintenance and that people will over stress the object. So engineers have to account for things like this when designing an object or a device so they don’t fail prematurely.
I'm familiar
It's funny because engineers are known for making simplifications like this, not because the simplification is problematic