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Re:Prince Rupert's cube by taneq on Saturday February 17, 2018 @10:20AM (#16401035)
After watching the video, I feel like this follows intuitively from the fact that sqrt(2) > 1.
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Re:Prince Rupert's cube by cousin_it on Saturday February 17, 2018 @10:58AM (#16401204)
The biggest possible difference between Prince Rupert's cubes is 3%, which is much smaller than the difference between sqrt(2) and 1.
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Re:Prince Rupert's cube by a1369209993 on Saturday February 17, 2018 @09:01PM (#16404000)
FWIW, `(sqrt(2)-1)^3` is `0.071067831`, which while not equal to `(1.0606601-1)` is fairly close.
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