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by cousin_it 3043 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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FWIW, `(sqrt(2)-1)^3` is `0.071067831`, which while not equal to `(1.0606601-1)` is fairly close.