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Unit Cubes (Posted on 2004-02-02) Difficulty: 3 of 5
Some unit cubes are assembled to form a larger cube. Some of the faces of the larger cube are then painted. The cube is taken apart and it is found that 217 of the unit cubes have paint on them. What is the total number of unit cubes?

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re(4): Extension (A deeper question) | Comment 13 of 16 |
(In reply to re(3): Extension (A deeper question) by Charlie)

I wrote a short program and checked cubes with sides up to 30,000. I found more duplicates, but no triplicates at all (other than the trivial cases of 1 and 8). Anyone care to conjecture (or prove!) that there are no triplicates?
  Posted by Brian Wainscott on 2004-02-05 16:13:54

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