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doubling the cube
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geometric problem of constructing a cube with twice the volume of a given cube
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- Instance of
- mathematical problem
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- Cube and doubled cube.svg
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- Doubling the cube
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Encyclopedic overview
A unit cube (side = 1) and a cube with twice the volume (side =
2
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