Has anyone noted that the most commonly used kinds of mando bridges are seriously compensated? Looking down on the bridge, they're often/usually/sometimes a zig-zag shape, so that the string lengths are different even when the bridge is set square to the strings.

A few people I've seen use an "arched" bridge without the compensation.

Either style can benefit from squiggling it about a bit to get the separate strings as close as possible to where they play the harmonic (octave) of the open string at the 12th fret; but