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A Square Problem (Posted on 2004-12-26)

Given a unit cube, what is the largest square that can be placed completely inside the cube?

No Solution Yet Submitted by SilverKnight

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re: posible solution

| Comment 17 of 18 |

(In reply to posible solution by Elvis Alistar)

Nice try but your "square" is a rhombus! One diagonal, MN, has length square root of 2 and the other diagonal, BD', has length square root of 3!

Posted by McWorter on 2005-03-25 18:10:18

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