# Surface area of irregualar shape [closed]

How to find the surface area of an irregular shape like this

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• Is there any formula to directly find the surface area without counting? Or some indirect geeky way of finding it out without manual counting – AlgorithimicDUMB Nov 15 '17 at 8:13

If this is built up of cubes with side length $1$, and all cubes are placed exactly along the integer coordinate grid, then it's just a matter of counting the number of cube faces that are visible, and since each face has area $1$, that's it. Be systematic and make sure you haven't left any sides out. That is the easiest way.