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by yason 4534 days ago
I'm tired but isn't that just 1.5 times?

Tied together, a 1m³ block of limestone and a volume of 1.5m³ of floats displace 2.5m³ of water. Assuming the mass of the floats themselves isn't much then already that would lift 2.5 tons off from the bottom of the water pool.

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Yeah, I got it wrong.