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The other day, a few of my running friends were talking about running in the rain and were worried about the oncoming storm. I jokingly told them that running faster would get them less wet. Now of course there was a Mythbusters episode that went over this, but in that episode, they only experimented and went over the statistical data, to show that running faster makes you less wet, and given their experiment and sample size it is really hard to say the results were conclusive. While statistics is a very reliable method of proving things, often times it is hard to see why things occur, and it only shows that things do occur. Instead I decided to write up a mathematical proof that shows exactly why it is better to run rather walk in the rain.
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