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A 79-kg swami lies on a bed of nails with his body supported by 2,000 nails. The area of the point of each nail is 1 mm^2. If the threshold pressure for pain is 1 mpa, how unpleasant is the experience for the swami? What if the point area is 0.1mm^2?
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