Prince Rupert's Cube

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Prince Rupert's cube is the largest cube that can be made to pass through a given cube. The edge length of the red cube is times the length of the blue cube.

Contributed by: Izidor Hafner (January 2014)
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[1] D. Wells, The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Geometry, London: Penguin Books, 1991 p. 195.

[2] Wikipedia. "Prince Rupert's Cube." (Nov 21, 2013) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Rupert's_cube.



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