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Sugar Cubes (Posted on 2002-12-24)

Three cubes of volume 1, 8, and 64 are glued together.
What is the smallest possible surface area of the resulting configuration?

-Problem taken from UNL Math Day

See The Solution Submitted by cges

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Subject	Author	Date
answer	K Sengupta	2008-02-26 23:47:37
Let's be specific....	Jim Alain	2005-01-14 23:24:42
Solution-if you wanna play nitpicking	Joe C	2004-02-25 09:30:53
Solution	Antonio	2003-08-22 02:17:20
Solution	Antonio	2003-08-22 02:09:03
re: Simple Simon met a Pieman who gave Simple Simon a problem called Sugar Cubes.	Vinodhan Selvarajalu	2003-05-18 00:46:49
Simple Simon met a Pieman who gave Simple Simon a problem called Sugar Cubes.	Tim Axoy	2003-04-13 14:00:48
re(2): As easy as 1,2,4 (corrections)	TomM	2002-12-25 02:52:21
re: As easy as 1,2,4 (corrections)	np_rt	2002-12-24 23:58:32
As easy as 1,2,4	TomM	2002-12-24 23:48:54

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