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Three Cylinders in a Cube
Cylinders pass through a cube along three edges of an octahedron that bypass each other. The cylinders do not intersect with each other until their diameter is greater than one sixth of the body diagonal of the cube.
Contributed by:
Sándor Kabai
with a modification from
Ralf Schaper
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Sándor Kabai
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Three Cylinders in a Cube
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http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/ThreeCylindersInACube/
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Published: April 27, 2007
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