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A comment on 2+1=4, by quinoa. Parent comment

Re:2+1=4, by quinoa by endtime on Friday July 03, 2020 @07:20PM (#23728493)
The mixture seems like the intuitive answer to me. A single tennis ball packs the volume of a tennis ball more efficiently than the equivalent volume of marbles.
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Re:2+1=4, by quinoa by gowld on Friday July 03, 2020 @09:55PM (#23729356)
The problem is ambiguously stated. A "volume of X" isn't well-defined when the point of the problem is to reason about packing efficiency.
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