If you were to talk to some random people you might meet out and about, you could discover that there are a few different ways to dry your clothes.

1. You can put it in a dryer and let modern technology take care of all the hard work.
2. You can hang your clothes up on a clothesline, either outside or inside.
3. You could leave your clothes in a wet pile and pray that they dry before any mold starts to grow.

I suppose if you want to be nitpicky, you could also set your clothes on fire, but while that may dry them out they would not be useable afterwards. We’ll ignore that.

Really, I just want to talk about the second method: Hanging your clothes out to dry. It can be a feat of engineering to hang everything in such a way that you use the least number of clothespins, get the most articles of clothing to hang, and also manage to dry all of said articles of clothing in an allotted amount of time.
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