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by taneq 3040 days ago
After watching the video, I feel like this follows intuitively from the fact that sqrt(2) > 1.
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cousin_it 3040 days ago
The biggest possible difference between Prince Rupert's cubes is 3%, which is much smaller than the difference between sqrt(2) and 1.
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a1369209993 3040 days ago
FWIW, `(sqrt(2)-1)^3` is `0.071067831`, which while not equal to `(1.0606601-1)` is fairly close.
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