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Pile of Cannonballs (Posted on 2004-08-03)

If one stacks 10 cannonballs of diameter d in a pile (tetrahedron), what is the height of the pile?

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The required height is approximately 2.6329932*d

Posted by K Sengupta on 2007-05-15 14:54:47

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