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Re: LEGO Puzzle: Soma Cube
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lugnet.build
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Thu, 6 Dec 2001 01:16:09 GMT
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In lugnet.build, Eric Harshbarger writes:
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> Hmmm... not to take issue with your son [grin], but these pieces which
> form a 3x3x3 Soma Cube do not reform to construct 2 smaller cubes.
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> In fact, it is impossible for any number of cubic block pieces that form
> a single
> cube to be able to form two smaller cubes.
lol Okay, I just asked my son for clarification:
Me:"Didn't you say that all of these cubes form 1 big 4x4 cube, and also 2 3x3
cubes?"
Him: "No. Duh." (but I was told that they do form 2 3x3 cubes but with a few
parts left over)
Apparently I am the one with whom you have issues-- my misteak:-)
-John
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> This is a corollary of the famous Mathematical theorem known as Fermat's
> Last Theorem (which, though it says much more than this, in this case
> boils down to the fact that any (positive) Cubed Number cannot be the
> sum of two (positive) Cubes).
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| Hmmm... not to take issue with your son [grin], but these pieces which form a 3x3x3 Soma Cube do not reform to construct 2 smaller cubes. In fact, it is impossible for any number of cubic block pieces that form a single cube to be able to form two (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-01, to lugnet.build)
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