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Puzzle 63. TRISECTING A CUBE |
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Cut the cube into at most six smaller pieces, and rearrange them into
3 octahedrons of the similar size, shape, and volume. Each octahedron would have a volume
one-third that of the original cube.
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Bits and Beyond... ARISTOTLE Aristotle was born in Stageira in Chalcidice in the northern Greece. At 17, he went to Athens, and begun spending twenty years of his life studying under Plato. When Plato died, he returned to Macedonia, and became the mentor of Alexander the Great. Later, he went back to Athens to establish his own school at Lyceum. Here, he spent most of the rest of his life in research, teaching, and writing. His works include a wide range of subjects including ethics, philosophy, physics, biology, psychology, logic, politics, and rhetoric.
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