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Before you touch a single 2x12, put down the saw and pick up a calculator. Building a perfect staircase has less to do with your cutting skills and more to do with solving one elegant equation. Get the math right, and the wood simply falls into place to create a structure that is not only beautiful but fundamentally flawless. In my years teaching geometry, I saw students struggle with abstract proofs. Then, in my years on the job site, I saw carpenters struggle with the very same principles, just manifested in wood and nails. This article isn't a tutorial; it's a revelation. I'm going to show you how to see the staircase not as a construction project, but as a beautiful, solvable theorem that, once proven on paper, makes the physical build a simple act of transcription.
